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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, a concept which puts “contemporary” as well as “Romanticism” in play as period designations and critical paradigms. The book regards Romanticism as a thought experiment that poses questions for our own “now” time.
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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).
