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Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature 2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism: Stoppard's Arcadia 3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein 4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" 5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" 6. "New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming": Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time Appendix: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Notes Index

Literature Life and Modernity

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 04/09/2008
      ISBN13: 9780231144544, 978-0231144544
      ISBN10: 0231144547
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      An important book... Highly recommended. Choice

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Subjectivity, Modernity, and the Uses of Literature 2. Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism: Stoppard's Arcadia 3. Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein 4. Attention, Expressive Power, and Interest in Life: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" 5. The Ends of Literary Narrative: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" 6. "New Centers of Reflection Are Continually Forming": Benjamin, Sebald, and Modern Human Life in Time Appendix: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Notes Index

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