Eldridge Literature, Life, and Modernity

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-51552-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Eldridge, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Appendix: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Persistence of Romanticism, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, and On Moral Personhood, and is the editor of Beyond Representation, Stanley Cavell, and The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming).