Literature, life, and modernity /
Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xii, 178 p. ; 23 cm. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature -- Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia -- Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein -- Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" -- The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo" -- "New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.
9780231144544 (cloth: acidfree paper)
2008001172
Literature--Philosophy.
European literature--History and criticism.
Literature and society.
PN49 / .E43 2008
Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xii, 178 p. ; 23 cm. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature -- Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia -- Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein -- Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" -- The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo" -- "New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.
9780231144544 (cloth: acidfree paper)
2008001172
Literature--Philosophy.
European literature--History and criticism.
Literature and society.
PN49 / .E43 2008