Les Fins de Siecle by Elaine Scarry

Les Fins de Siecle by Elaine Scarry

Arranged chronologically, the chapters treat English poetry and culture at successive turns-of-the-century. The result is a rich picture of the ways calendar and culture affect one another. Even if we must pass through our own century's turn "unprotected", these pictures from the past provide an array of models that may prove useful: the book shows us portraits of the final decade as a radical invitation to political distribution (Braudy), as a prolonged kiss (McGann), as an assassin (Vendler), and even as an Hegelian reader,"curled up in an easy chair" wishing to exempt itself from the rest of the century (de Grazia). The number of great poets who wrote at their century's end - Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare - works to deepen our attention to the poetry now emerging in the 1990S.

" There is a wonderful variety and energy hereReaders should emerge intellectually tweaked. Recommended for all university collections."--R. Boston, 'Choice' "These essays are about previous ends of centuries, but are also themselves fin-de-sihcle instruments and achievements. They will become part of any future study of our own time."--Peter Sacks, The Johns Hopkins University

Elaine Scarry is professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. She is the author of 'The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World' and editor of 'Literature and the Body: Selected Papers from the English Institute', the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780801849299
ISBN 10	0801849292
Titel	Les Fins de Siecle
Autor	Elaine Scarry
Serie	Parallax: Re-Visions Of Culture And Society
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-01-01
Seitenanzahl	136
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Hinweis	Nicht verfügbar