The look of distance: reflections on suffering & sympathy in modern literature--Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf

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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismSuffering in literature
Sympathy in literature
American literature -- History and criticism
Issue Date:
1985Metadata
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The Ohio State University PressDescription:
(print) 309 p. ; 22 cm
Contents:
Acknowledgments ix -- I. Introduction 3 -- PART ONE -- II. Some Varieties of Armor and Innocence 15 -- III. Furious Compassions ; Pity and Contempt 41 -- IV. A Terrible Promiscuous Compassion 67 -- V. Heights and Depths of Distance 101 -- PART TWO -- VI. The Engulfing of Others and Delicious Unions with Death 133 -- VII. Coming Together and Apart 155 -- VIII. The Lonely Embraces of Artists 199 -- PART THREE -- IX. Singing about Suffering 233 -- X. With Respect to Voyeurism 265 -- Notes 281 -- Index 305
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BookISBN:
081420385X (print)0814204058 (print)
Other Identifiers:
OCLC #12135605 (print)LCCN 85010447 (print)
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