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- Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers such as Paul Valery, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars.The second part concerns Germany and Romania, with essays on Ernst Juenger, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kahler, E. M. Cioran, and others. The volume concludes with essays on problems of literary criticism, in dialogue with such critics as Gary Saul Morson, Ian Watt, T. S. Eliot, and R. P. Blackmur. These essays also discuss the history of the novel and the question of "realism."
Table of Contents
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- Previous Publication
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-2
- Part One: France
- p. 3
- 3. Camus as Journalist
- pp. 34-44
- 4. Andre Malraux: A Hero of His Time
- pp. 45-60
- 6. Racine and Anti-Semitism
- pp. 78-85
- 8. French Intellectuals between the Wars
- pp. 96-104
- 10. Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian
- pp. 111-115
- 11. The ‘‘Double Life’’ of Gottfried Benn
- pp. 116-119
- 14. Eliot’s Legacy
- pp. 157-164
- 15. The Novel in Wonderland
- pp. 165-176
- 16. R. P. Blackmur’s Texts: An Introduction
- pp. 177-186
- 17. Ian Watt: A Tribute
- pp. 187-203
- 18. Gary Saul Morson’s Narrative and Freedom
- pp. 204-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823246496
Related ISBN(s)
9780823239252
MARC Record
OCLC
830023674
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No