W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312221386)

This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyses 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 emphasises the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it generates hope, affection, and most importantly an ethical challenge of responsibility out of its discoveries.

Author: R. Emig
ISBN-10: 031222138X
ISBN-13: 9780312221386
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2000
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.68w x 0.84d