Promise of Nostalgia - Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Personal Preface
Introduction
PART ONE
1 Nostalgia: Is It Really Not What It Used To Be?
2 Memory, Nostalgia, Utopia and Time
3 Nostalgia as 'Gold-bearing Rubble'
PART TWO
Interlude 1 The Hole in the Whole: Utopia Contra Instrumental Reason
4 The 'Strange Magic' of Style Rookie and Rookiemag
Interlude 2 A Space Outside: Utopia as Negation
5 Memories of Longing in The Virgin Suicides
Interlude 3 Marshalling the Past: Utopia versus Once Upon a Time
6 Nostalgia in Photographs of Detroit's 'Abandoned Spaces'
Conclusion
Bibliography

Info autore

Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Riassunto

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nicola Sayers
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.01.2020
• EAN: 9780367134983
• ISBN: 978-0-367-13498-3
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Environmental science, engineering and technology