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020 _a9780231144544 (cloth: acidfree paper)
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050 0 0 _aPN49
_b.E43 2008
100 1 _aEldridge, Richard Thomas,
_d1953-
245 1 0 _aLiterature, life, and modernity /
_cRichard Eldridge.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axii, 178 p. ;
_c23 cm.
490 0 _aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aLiterature
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and society.
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