Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History (The Great Courses 292) (Audiobook) (Repost)
Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History (The Great Courses 292) (Audiobook) By Professor Jeffrey Perl
1991 | 6 hours and 23 mins | ISBN: 1598031600 | MP3 64 kbps | 184 MB
1991 | 6 hours and 23 mins | ISBN: 1598031600 | MP3 64 kbps | 184 MB
"It is no trick to like what you like. It is no trick to understand what you understand." With that pronouncement, Professor Jeffrey Perl invites us to abandon our preconceptions and consider some of the most controversial authors of the 20th century: the Literary Modernists. How were the political extremism and self-destructive choices so many of them made during the war years related to their writing and the personal demons that haunted them? These lectures do not shrink from the challenges imposed by these questions, or by challenging the answers scholars have routinely accepted. Indeed, Professor Perl accepts them with relish. Nor do the lectures shrink from the difficulties of Literary Modernism itself, which can only be appreciated within the wide-ranging context of the philosophy, literature, politics, and morality of its own time.