| Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism Contributor(s): Khalip, Jacques (Editor), Pyle, Forest (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823271048 ISBN-13: 9780823271047 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Art | History - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 141.6 |
| LCCN: 2015045243 |
| Series: Lit Z |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Pyle, Forest: - 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).Khalip, Jacques: - 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. |