Lateness and modern european literature
Auteur :
Hutchinson, Ben
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198767695
Date de publication :
11 août 2016
Dimensions :
23,5 x 16,9 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
732 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.