Futurity
contemporary literature and the quest for the past
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Author
Publication
2013 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
88,750 words, Guess
Page Count
355 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25324016M
- ISBN-139780226924953
- ISBN-100226924955
- OCLC Control Number783150226
- OCLC Control Numberfuturitycontempo0000eshe
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012019390
Classifications
- DDC809/.93358
- LCCPN50 .E84 2013
Description
"Critical writing on literature and the arts is burdened by the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a future-centric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilities-what he calls futurity." -- Front jacket flap
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- Futurity: contemporary literature and the quest for the past
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