Futurity
contemporary literature and the quest for the past
by Amir Eshel
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"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
2013, The University of Chicago Press
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2013, University of Chicago Press
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