Literature, Life, and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Richard Eldridge Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Subjectivity! Modernity! and the Uses of Literature2. Romanticism! Cartesianism! Humeanism! Byronism: Stoppard's Arcadia3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein4. Attention! Expressive Power! and Interest in Life: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"6. "New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming": Benjamin! Sebald! and Modern Human Life in TimeAppendix: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"NotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Richard Eldridge, Richard Thomas Eldridge
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780231144544
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14454-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts; Columbia Themes in Philosophy; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Literary theory, semiotics; aesthetics