Lateness and Modern European Literature |
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| Author:
| Hutchinson, Ben |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-876769-5 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $130.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.