Being of Two Minds: Modernist Literary Criticism and Early Modern Texts

by Jonathan Goldberg

Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531501613
• ISBN13: 9781531501617
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"