Responses to Modernity Essays in the Politics of Culture |
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| Author:
| Frank, Joseph |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-3925-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers--such as Paul Val#65533;ry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andr#65533; Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy--and a piece on French...
More DescriptionThis book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century.
The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers--such as Paul Val#65533;ry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andr#65533; Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy--and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars. The second part concerns Germany and Romania, with essays on Ernst Juenger, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kahler, E. M. Cioran, and others.
The volume concludes with essays on problems of literary criticism, in dialogue with such critics as Gary Saul Morson, Ian Watt, T. S. Eliot, and R. P. Blackmur. These essays also discuss the history of the novel and the question of "realism."