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Futurity : contemporary literature and the quest for the past /
"When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on 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 l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on 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."--Provided by the publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 355 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283855792 1283855798 0226924963 9780226924960 |