W.H.Auden : Towards a Postmodern Poetics -- Hardback

Emig, Rainer

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 商品コード 9780333745571
• DDC分類 821.912

Full Description

This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyses the experiments in Auden's writings for their engagement with crucial contemporary problems: that of the individual in relation to others, loved ones, community, society, but also transcendental truths. It shows that rather than providing firm answers, Auden's poetry emphasises the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it generates hope, affection, and most importantly an ethical challenge of responsibility out of its discoveries.

Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Taming the Monster Early Auden: Farewell to the Signified Libidinous Charades: The Auden-Isherwood Plays The Orators: A Study of Authority The Challenge of History Displaced Voices: Post-War Auden From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden's Later Works Last Things Auden's Postmodernism Bibliography Index