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Fins de Sicle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990

Fins de Sicle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990

Elaine Scarry
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"These essays are about previous ends of centuries, but are also themselves fin-de-sicle instruments and achievements. They will become part of any future study of our own time."--Peter Sacks, The Johns Hopkins University.In Les Fins de Sicle Elaine Scarry brings together an eminent group of contributors to examine a subject that increasingly occupies our thoughts as this century--and this millennium--approaches an end. Arranged chronologically, the chapters treat English poetry and culture at successive turns-of-the-century. The result is a rich picture of the ways calendar and culture affect one another. Even if we must pass through our own century's turn "unprotected," these pictures from the past provide an array of models that may prove useful: the book shows us portraits of the fin de sicle as a radical invitation to political distribution , as a prolonged kiss , as an assassin , and even as an Hegelian reader, "curled up in an easy chair" wishing to exempt itself from the rest of the century . The number of great poets who wrote at their century's end--Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare--works to deepen our attention to the poetry now emerging in the 1990s.
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
December 01, 1994
ISBN
0801849284
ISBN 13
9780801849282

Fins de Sicle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990

Elaine Scarry
0/5 ( ratings)
"These essays are about previous ends of centuries, but are also themselves fin-de-sicle instruments and achievements. They will become part of any future study of our own time."--Peter Sacks, The Johns Hopkins University.In Les Fins de Sicle Elaine Scarry brings together an eminent group of contributors to examine a subject that increasingly occupies our thoughts as this century--and this millennium--approaches an end. Arranged chronologically, the chapters treat English poetry and culture at successive turns-of-the-century. The result is a rich picture of the ways calendar and culture affect one another. Even if we must pass through our own century's turn "unprotected," these pictures from the past provide an array of models that may prove useful: the book shows us portraits of the fin de sicle as a radical invitation to political distribution , as a prolonged kiss , as an assassin , and even as an Hegelian reader, "curled up in an easy chair" wishing to exempt itself from the rest of the century . The number of great poets who wrote at their century's end--Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare--works to deepen our attention to the poetry now emerging in the 1990s.
Language
English
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Release
December 01, 1994
ISBN
0801849284
ISBN 13
9780801849282

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