{"product_id":"impossible-modernism-robert-s-lehman-9780804799041","title":"Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpossible Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e reads the writings of German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Anglo-American poet and critic T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) to examine the relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. It focuses particularly on how they both resisted the forms of narration established by nineteenth-century academic historians and turned instead to traditional literary devices--lyric, satire, anecdote, and allegory--to reimagine the forms that historical representation might take. Tracing the fraught relationship between poetry and history back to Aristotle's \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e and forward to Nietzsche's \u003ci\u003eUntimely Meditations\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert S. Lehman establishes the coordinates of the intellectual-historical problem that Eliot and Benjamin inherited and offers an analysis of how they grappled with this legacy in their major works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert S. Lehman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804799040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804799041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Robert S. Lehman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065153827071,"sku":"9780804799041","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3b07c12-5c7c-4d39-8601-cd6535358e5a.jpg?v=1768673351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impossible-modernism-robert-s-lehman-9780804799041","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}