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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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About this book
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.
About the author
RAINER EMIG is Lecturer in English Literature and a Member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His publications include a study of modernism in poetry and essays on 19th- and 20th-century literature, as well as critical and cultural theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: W.H. Auden
Book Subtitle: Towards A Postmodern Poetics
Authors: Rainer Emig
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286979
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22138-6Published: 11 February 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28697-9Published: 28 October 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 237