This study of Auden's complete poetry and plays reads them in conjunction with two crucial twentieth-century concepts, modernism and postmodernism. A detailed analysis of Auden's writings shows their engagement with and eventual rejection of modernism, with its nostalgia for lost certainties and att
W.H. Auden : towards a postmodern poetics
โ Scribed by Emig, Rainer, 1964-
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
x, 237 pages ; 23 cm
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