Ebook: Literature, Life, and Modernity
Author: Eldridge Richard
- Tags: European literature--History and criticism, Literature and society, Literature--Philosophy, Electronic books, European literature -- History and criticism, Literature -- Philosophy
- Series: Columbia themes in philosophy social criticism and the arts
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature""; ""2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism, Stoppard's Arcadia ""; ""3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein""; ""4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"""; ""5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"""; ""6. "New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming": Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time"";
Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate reflective depth and help their readers order and interpret their lives as subjects in relation to complex economies and technological systems. By imagining themselves in the role of the protagonist or the authorial persona, readers become immersed in structures of sustained attention, under which concrete possibilities of meaningful life, along with difficulties that block their realization, are.
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