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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mack, Michael (1969-2020)
Titre(s) : Disappointment [Texte imprimé] : its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature / Michael Mack
Publication : New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury publishing Inc, 2021
Description matérielle : vii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index
"A literary and intellectual history of the trope of disappointment and its political
implications from the 17th century through today"
Sujet(s) : Déception -- Dans la littérature
Littérature moderne -- Thèmes, motifs
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.933 53 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thème des caractéristiques et activités humaines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501366864. - ISBN 1501366866. - ISBN 9781501366888 (erroné). - ISBN 9781501366895
(erroné). - ISBN 9781501366871. - ISBN 1501366874
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468291832
Notice n° :
FRBNF46829183
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Spinoza and F. H. Jacobi's idealist disavowal of disappointment or how Romanticism
questions Idealisations of the Anthropocene ; Rendering Dialectics Disappointing:
Spinoza's spectre haunting the Anthropocene from Romanticism to Postmodernism in literature
and science ; The Destructive element: Keats & Conrad or How Romanticism avows idealism's
disavowed disappointment ; Modernity's promise and its disavowed disappointment:
Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism out of the Sources of Conrad's Heart of
Darkness ; The trajectory of Conrad's novel of Disavowed Disappointment: Hegel's
dialectics, Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Saul Bellow's Ravelstein ; Political
Promises and History's Disappointments: Leo Strauss as the esoteric centre of Bellow's
Ravelstein and the critique of grand political promises ; Disappointment in the age
of the Anthropocene: how D H Lawrence and Kafka render dialectics inoperative ; Disappointing
expectations of Redemption: Modern Jewish Writing and Thought ; Conclusion: Expecting
Disappointment, or, from Pynchon's, Roth's, Strauss's and Vonnegut's postmodernism
to Anna Burn's Milkman and D. F. Wallace's The Pale King.