Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason

by Robert Lehman

Impossible Modernism 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799040
• ISBN13: 9780804799041
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"