Lateness and modern European literature

Lateness and modern European literature / Ben Hutchinson.

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 understoo...

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Main Author: Hutchinson, Ben, 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1800-1999
European literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
European literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
European literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 392 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.
ISBN:9780191821578
0191821578
0191080330
9780191080333
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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