Name: Apocalyptic Futures (Modern Language Initiative) (en Inglés)
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Author: Russell Samolsky
ISBN: 9780823234806

portada Apocalyptic Futures (Modern Language Initiative) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Fordham University Press

Autor

Russell Samolsky

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

192

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780823234806

N° edición

Categorías

Europa
Historia y crítica literaria

Apocalyptic Futures (Modern Language Initiative) (en Inglés)

Russell Samolsky (Autor) · Fordham University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Apocalyptic Futures (Modern Language Initiative) (en Inglés)"

In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions. Apocalyptic Futures also sets out to articulate a new theory and textual practice of the relation between literary reception and embodiment. Deploying the double register of "marks" to show how a text both codes and targets mutilated bodies, the author focuses on how these bodies are incorporated into texts by Kafka, Conrad, Coetzee, and Spiegelman. Situating "In the Penal Colony" in relation to the Holocaust, Heart of Darkness to the Rwandan genocide, and Waiting for the Barbarians to the revelations of torture in apartheid South Africa and contemporary Iraq, the author argues for the ethical and political importance of reading these literary works' "apocalyptic futures" in our own urgent and perilous situations. The book concludes with a reading of Spiegelman's Maus that offers a messianic counter-time to the law of apocalyptic incorporation.