Synopses & Reviews
This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyzes 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 emphasized the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it generates hope, affection, and most importantly an ethical challenge of responsibility of its discoveries.
Synopsis
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Taming the Monster Early Auden: Farewell to the Signified Libidinous Charades: The Auden-Isherwood Plays The Orators: A Study of Authority The Challenge of History Displaced Voices: Post-War Auden From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden's Later Works Last Things Auden's Postmodernism Bibliography Index
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-230) and index.
About the Author
Rainer Emig is Lecturer in English Literature and a member of the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales.
Table of Contents
Taming the Monster * Libidinous Charades--The Auden-Isherwood Plays *
The Orators --A Study of Authority * The Challenge of History * Displaced Voices--Post-War Auden * From Eros to Agape--The Philosophy of Auden's Later Works * Last Things * Auden's Postmodernism * Index