Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823271048 ISBN 13 : 9780823271047

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and "romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticism--from deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopolitics--this volume makes good on a central tenet of Benjamin's conception of history: These critics "grasp the constellation" into which our "own era has formed with a definite earlier one." Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticism's singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticism's contemporary "redemption value" for painting and politics, philosophy and film?

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, and co-editor of Releasing The Image: From Literature to New Media and Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism.

Forest Pyle is Professor of English at the University of Oregon and the author of Art's Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism (Fordham).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823271048
• ISBN 13: 9780823271047
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Khalip Jacques, Pyle Forest
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible