W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics - Couverture rigide

Emig, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333745574 ISBN 13 : 9780333745571

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyses the experiments in Auden's writings for their engagement with crucial contemporary problems: that of the individual in relation to others, loved ones, community, society, but also transcendental truths. It shows that rather than providing firm answers, Auden's poetry emphasises the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it generates hope, affection, and most importantly an ethical challenge of responsibility out of its discoveries.

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À propos de l'auteur

RAINER EMIG is Lecturer in English Literature and a Member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His publications include a study of modernism in poetry and essays on 19th- and 20th-century literature, as well as critical and cultural theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333745574
• ISBN 13: 9780333745571
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 247
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