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W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics

W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics

Emig, R.

Hardcover

Series: Towards a Postmodern Poetics

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0333745574
ISBN13: 9780333745571
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 28 1999
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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