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Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the artsPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.Description: xii, 178 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780231144544 (cloth: acidfree paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN49 .E43 2008
Contents:
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.
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction PN49 .E43 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 028482
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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.

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