W.H. Auden

Towards A Postmodern Poetics

AvR. Emig

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyzes 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 emphasizes 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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Utgivningsdatum:1999-10-28
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:237
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333745571

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Taming the Monster Early Auden: Farewell to the Signified Libidinous Charades: The Auden-Isherwood Plays The Orators: A Study of Authority The Challenge of History Displaced Voices: Post-War Auden From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden's Later Works Last Things Auden's Postmodernism Bibliography Index