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Literature, life, and modernity /

"Literary form, Eldridge argues, generates structures of care, reflection, and investment within readers, shaping - if not stabilizing - their interactions with everyday objects and events. Through the experience of literary forms of attention, readers may come to think and live more actively,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Colección:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.