Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Acknowledgments; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Poetry and the Prose of the Future; Part 1: Gathering Dust, T.S. Eliot; 1. Lyric; 2. Satire; 3. Myth; Part 2: Killing Time, Walter Benjamin; 4. Order; 5. Anecdote; 6. Allegory; Conclusion: The Lightning Flash and the Storm of Progress; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Summary |
'Impossible Modernism' reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both resisted the forms of narration established by nineteenth-century academic historians and turned instead to traditional literary devices - lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory - to reimagine the forms that historical representation might take |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 7, 2016) |
Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast |
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast |
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Literature and history.
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Modernism (Literature)
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Literature and history
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Modernism (Literature)
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781503600140 |
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1503600149 |
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