Aristotle and modernism; aesthetic affinities of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf.

9781845191719

Aristotle and modernism; aesthetic affinities of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Virginia Woolf.

Rosenthal, Edna.

Sussex Academic Press

2008

152 pages

$75.00

Hardcover

PS228

In what may be considered a contrarian critique, Goldman- Rozental (English, Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv) applies the principles of Aristotle's Poetics to rarely grouped writers of the classicist or modernist label attached to Elliot, Stevens, and Woolf. In chapters informed by Frank Kermode's distinction in his seminal 1960s essay The Modernist between 'impersonal' paleo- and 'personalist' neo-modernists writers, and other critical theory, she attempts to reconcile Eliot's paleo- modernism and Stevens' and Woolfs' neo-modernism. Two of the four chapters are devoted to Woolfe--one to Mrs. Dalloway. Distributed in North America by ISBS.

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