W. H. Auden: Towards A Postmodern Poetics

✍ Scribed by Rainer Emig (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 248
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Taming the Monster....Pages 1-8
Early Auden: Farewell to the Signified....Pages 9-28
Libidinous Charades: The Auden-Isherwood Plays....Pages 29-51
The Orators: A Study of Authority....Pages 52-79
The Challenge of History....Pages 80-114
Displaced Voices: Post-War Auden....Pages 115-144
From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden’s Later Works....Pages 145-174
Last Things....Pages 175-203
Auden’s Postmodernism....Pages 204-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-237

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature

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