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The Living Moment. Modernism in a Broken World.
Jeffrey Hart
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Description for The Living Moment. Modernism in a Broken World.
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
In the spirit of Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Susan Sontag, the renowned literary critic Jeffrey Hart writes The Living Moment, a close reading of literature as it intersects with the political.
Hart’s book is an even-handed guide for anyone toddling into the mists of the modernist moment, effortlessly moving between such modernist monuments as Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Mann’s Doctor Faustus, and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hart’s most stunning achievement is his brilliant inclusion of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead as a modernist text, for the way the novel teaches us to see more, ... Read more
In the spirit of Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Susan Sontag, the renowned literary critic Jeffrey Hart writes The Living Moment, a close reading of literature as it intersects with the political.
Hart’s book is an even-handed guide for anyone toddling into the mists of the modernist moment, effortlessly moving between such modernist monuments as Eliot’s The Waste Land, Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Mann’s Doctor Faustus, and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hart’s most stunning achievement is his brilliant inclusion of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead as a modernist text, for the way the novel teaches us to see more, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810128217
SKU
V9780810128217
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