Literature, life, and modernity
By: Richard Eldridge.
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780231144544; 9780231515528
Subjects: Literature -- Philosophy; European literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature; title: Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia; title: Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein; title: Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"; title: The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo"; title: "New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.