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Author Lehman, Robert S. (Robert Scott), author.

Title Impossible modernism : T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the critique of historical reason / Robert S. Lehman
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016

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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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Subject Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast
Subject Literature and history.
Modernism (Literature)
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
Literature and history
Modernism (Literature)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503600140
1503600149