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Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis; from precarity to postcolonial studies. \"The muse does not like being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarmé,\" Auden writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our world today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744946037009,"sku":"NGR9781503633926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51031445733649,"sku":"NIN9781503633926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1503633926.jpg?v=1757416329"},{"product_id":"regions-of-sorrow-book-susannah-young-ah-gottlieb-9780804745116","title":"Regions of Sorrow","description":"W. 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