Responses to Modernity : : Essays in the Politics of Culture / / Joseph Frank.

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.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Previous Publication
  • Introduction
  • Part one. France
  • 1. Paul Valéry: Masters and Friends
  • 2. Jacques Maritain: Medieval Modernism
  • 3. Camus as Journalist
  • 4. Andre Malraux: A Hero of His Time
  • 5. Yves Bonnefoy: Notes of an Admirer
  • 6. Racine and Anti-Semitism
  • 7. Nicola Chiaromonte: The Ethics of Politics
  • 8. French Intellectuals between the Wars
  • 9. Sartre: An Existentialist in the Underworld
  • Part two. Germany and Romania
  • 10. Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian
  • 11. The ‘‘Double Life’’ of Gottfried Benn
  • 12. Erich Kahler and the Quest for a Human Absolute
  • 13. Eliade, Cioran, Ionesco: The Treason of the Intellectuals
  • Part three. Critics and Criticism
  • 14. Eliot’s Legacy
  • 15. The Novel in Wonderland
  • 16. R. P. Blackmur’s Texts: An Introduction
  • 17. Ian Watt: A Tribute
  • 18. Gary Saul Morson’s Narrative and Freedom
  • 19. Lilian Furst and the Art of Literary Realism
  • Index