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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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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Use in library | PR479.S93 S58 1985 | Off-site |
Details
- 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