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Literature and the Global Contemporary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R3,052
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Literature and the Global Contemporary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri

Literature and the Global Contemporary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges, Emilio Sauri

Series: New Comparisons in World Literature

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This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous 'now'. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary as an always plural, heterogeneous, and contested temporality. Far from suggesting that we replace theories of an omnipresent 'end of history' with a traditional, single, diachronic timeline, this book encourages the development of such a timeline's rigorous inverse: a synchronic, multi-faceted and multi-temporal history of the contemporary in literature, and thus of contemporary global literatures. It opens up the concept of the contemporary for comparative study by unlocking its temporal, logical, political, and ultimately aesthetic and literary complexity.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: New Comparisons in World Literature
Release date: November 2017
First published: 2017
Editors: Sarah Brouillette • Mathias Nilges • Emilio Sauri
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 201
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-63054-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
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LSN: 3-319-63054-7
Barcode: 9783319630540

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