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

Title
The look of distance : reflections on suffering & sympathy in modern literature--Auden to Agee, Whitman to Woolf / Walter J. Slatoff.
Author
Slatoff, Walter J. (Walter Jacob), 1922-
Publication
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©1985.

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Description
309 pages, 1 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Suffering in literature
  • Sympathy in literature
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • American literature
  • English literature
  • Suffering in literature
  • Sympathy in literature
  • Literatur
  • Leid
  • Mitleid Motiv
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • USA
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [281]-303.
Contents
Some varieties of armor and innocence -- Furious compassions; Pity and contempt -- A terrible promiscuous compassion -- Heights and depths of distance -- The engulfing of others and delicious unions with death -- Coming together and apart -- The Lonely embraces of artists -- Singing about suffering -- With respect to voyeurism.
ISBN
  • 081420385X
  • 9780814203859
  • 0814204058
  • 9780814204054
LCCN
85010447
OCLC
  • ocm12135605
  • 12135605
  • SCSB-642201
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library