Responses to Modernity Essays in the Politics of Culture

Name: Responses to Modernity Essays in the Politics of Culture
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ISBN: 9780823239252

ISBN-10: 082323925X

ISBN-13: 9780823239252

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph Frank

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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 Valery, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars.The second part concerns Germany and Romania, withessays 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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Joseph Frank is the author of an award-winning multivolume biography of Dostoevsky.



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Introduction



France



Paul Valï¿½ry: Masters and Friends



Jacques Maritain: Medieval Modernism



Camus as Journalist



Andrï¿½ Malraux: A Hero of His Time



Yves Bonnefoy: Notes of an Admirer



Racine and Anti-Semitism



Nicola Chiaromonte: The Ethics of Politics



French Intellectuals between the Wars



Sartre: An Existentialist in the Underworld



Germany and Romania



Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian



The "Double Life" of Gottfried Benn



Erich Kahler and the Quest for a Human Absolute



Eliade, Cioran, Ionesco: The Treason of the Intellectuals



Critics and Criticism



Eliot's Legacy



The Novel in Wonderland



R. P. Blackmur's Texts: An Introduction



Ian Watt: A Tribute



Gary Saul Morson's Narrative and Freedom



Lilian Furst and the Art of Literary Realism


Index