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Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Series:	Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:	Literature > Philosophy. European literature > History and criticism. Literature and society. European literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature
Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia
Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein
Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo"
"New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.