Lateness and Modern European Literature

Zusatztext an impressive tour d'horizon ... succeeds admirably in unpicking the many strands of meaning in which the idea of lateness has become entangled Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature 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 chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understood as an expression of modernity's quest for legitimacy. Zusammenfassung Ben Hutchinson proposes a major new reading of modern literature 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 chronology and imitation, he argues that lateness can be understood as an expression of modernity's quest for legitimacy.

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• Authors: Ben Hutchinson, Ben (Professor of European Literature Hutchinson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9780198767695
• ISBN: 978-0-19-876769-5
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000