The Paradoxes of Posterity
Autor Benjamin Hoffmann, Alan J. Singermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mai 2022
Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity not only nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, but whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, tienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, Franois-Ren de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors' representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation.
Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780271087047
ISBN-10: 0271087048
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penn State University
ISBN-10: 0271087048
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penn State University