Futurity

"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

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

The University of Chicago Press

מהדורות

2

עמודים

355

ISBN

9780226924953

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata