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Lateness and Modern European Literature

Autor Ben Hutchinson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 aug 2016
Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors--from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valery, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno-- he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198767695
ISBN-10: 0198767692
Pagini: 404
Dimensiuni: 169 x 235 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

an illuminating survey of lateness in European culture
an ambitious work with a grand scope ... meticulously demonstrates the prevalence of lateness as a topic in modern literature
sees a whole rich tradition of lateness
an impressive tour d'horizon ... succeeds admirably in unpicking the many strands of meaning in which the idea of lateness has become entangled

Notă biografică

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent. He has published widely on German, French, and English literature, including the monographs Rilke's Poetics of Becoming (2006), W. G. Sebald. Die dialektische Imagination (2009), and Modernism and Style (2011), as well as the co-edited volumes Archive: Comparative Critical Studies 8: 2-3 (2011) and A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald (2013). He is also active as a critic, writing for publications including the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, and the Literary Review. In 2011, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.