Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture
Joseph Frank
Abstract
This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of World War I, and extending throughout the twentieth century. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers—such as Paul Valéry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy—and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars. The second part concerns Germany and Romania, with essays on Ernst Juenger, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kahler, E. M. Cioran, and o ... More
This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of World War I, and extending throughout the twentieth century. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers—such as Paul Valéry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy—and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars. The second part concerns Germany and Romania, with essays on Ernst Juenger, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kahler, E. M. Cioran, and others. The volume concludes with essays on problems of literary criticism—in dialogue with such critics as Gary Saul Morson, Ian Watt, T. S. Eliot, and R. P. Blackmur—that also discuss the history of the novel and the question of “realism.”
Keywords:
World War I,
France,
Paul Valry,
Jacques Maritain,
Albert Camus,
Andre Malraux,
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Yves Bonnefoy,
intellectuals,
literary criticism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823239252 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823239252.001.0001 |
