"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Eshel, Amir
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Schlagworte:	1900-1999 History in literature. German literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Hebrew literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Histoire dans la littérature. Littérature allemande > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature hébraïque > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. German literature Hebrew literature History in literature trauma, modernity, contemporary literature, criticism, literary theory, future, jewish-israeli writers, israel, jewish state, zionism, black dogs, ian mcewan, diary of a bad year, coetzee, war, holocaust, iraq, german, hebrew, gunter grass, expansion, becoming, tin drum, my century, crabwalk, peeling the onion, retrospection, past, nostalgia, guilt, memory, care ethics, heidegger, imagination, dissent, fascism, nazi, unsaid, silence, amends, utopia, cormac mccarthy, philip roth, paul auster, nonfiction, yehoshua kenaz, david grossman. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"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
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xi, 355 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781283855792 1283855798 0226924963 9780226924960