Impossible modernism : T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the critique of historical reason / Robert S. Lehman.

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Lehman, Robert S. (Robert Scott) [author.]

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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781503600140
1503600149

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Impossible modernism.DDC classification:

821/.912 23

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PS3509.L43 Z69177 2016eb

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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.

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'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.

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