TY - BOOK AU - Eldridge,Richard Thomas TI - Literature, life, and modernity T2 - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts SN - 9780231144544 (cloth: acidfree paper) AV - PN49 .E43 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - European literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society N1 - 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 ER -