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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503600140
  • 1503600149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Impossible modernism.DDC classification:
  • 821/.912 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3509.L43 Z69177 2016eb
Online resources:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 7, 2016).

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.

'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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