Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Taming the Monster Early Auden: Farewell to the Signified Libidinous Charades: The Auden-Isherwood Plays The Orators: A Study of Authority The Challenge of History Displaced Voices: Post-War Auden From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden's Later Works Last Things Auden's Postmodernism Bibliography Index

About the Author

RAINER EMIG is Lecturer in English Literature and a Member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff. His publications include a study of modernism in poetry and essays on 19th- and 20th-century literature, as well as critical and cultural theory.