The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World

by Jeffrey Hart

Book Overview

In the spirit of Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, and Susan Sontag, the renowned literary critic Jeffrey Hart writes The Living Moment, a close reading of literature as it intersects with the political. Hart's book is an even-handed guide for anyone toddling into the mists of the modernist moment, effortlessly moving between such modernist monuments as Eliot's "The Waste Land," Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Mann's Doctor Faustus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128217
• ISBN13: 9780810128217
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"