Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
eBook - ePub

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

About this book

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and "romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions by an international roster of distinguished scholars working in and out of romanticism—from deconstruction to new historicism, from queer theory to postcolonial studies, from visual culture to biopolitics—this volume makes good on a central tenet of Benjamin's conception of history: These critics "grasp the constellation" into which our "own era has formed with a definite earlier one." Each of these essays approaches romanticism as a decisive and unexpired thought experiment that makes demands on and poses questions for our own time: What is the unlived of a contemporary romanticism? What has romanticism's singular untimeliness bequeathed to futurity? What is romanticism's contemporary "redemption value" for painting and politics, philosophy and film?

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Yes, you can access Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism by Jacques Khalip, Forest Pyle, Jacques Khalip,Forest Pyle in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. The History of Missed Opportunities
  4. The Pathology of the Future, or the Endless Triumphs of Life
  5. Painting Theory
  6. Here There Is No After (Richter’s History)
  7. Goya’s Scarcity
  8. The Tone of Praise
  9. Endymion
  10. Dancing in the Dark with Shelley
  11. The Pastoral Stain
  12. The Walter Scott Experience
  13. Free Indirect Filmmaking
  14. Population Aesthetics in Romantic and Post-Romantic Literature
  15. Technomagism, Coleridge’s Mariner, and the Sentence Image
  16. Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Here, Now
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Contributors
  19. Index