UID:
almahu_9949546458102882
Format:
1 online resource (312 p.)
ISBN:
9781503633933
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9783110993899
Content:
Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet's struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis; from precarity to postcolonial studies. "The muse does not like being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarmé," Auden writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our world today.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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ABBREVIATIONS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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PART I --
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ONE States of Marriage --
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TWO Poetry, Prose, and a Forgotten Practice --
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THREE "Civilization Must Be Saved" --
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INTERLUDE The Falling Empire --
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PART II --
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FOUR Isotopes of Love --
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FIVE From Poem to Volume --
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SIX Anthropology, Hell, "Good-bye" --
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CODA --
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NOTES --
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INDEX
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766486
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781503633155
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503633933
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503633933
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503633933
