Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past

by Amir Eshel

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226924955

ISBN13:9780226924953

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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