Becoming Posthumous - Tambling, Jeremy
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Set against a backdrop of debates about the so-called "end of history," "the death of the subject" and "the end of art," as well as the various forms of the "past" that became prevalent in the late twentieth century, Jeremy Tambling introduces the idea of "the posthumous" as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history. In analyzing selected texts dealing with posthumous existence by Shakespeare, Dickens, Nietzsche, and Benjamin, Tambling provides readings concerned with the question of why we should give attention to history, and to past texts, if there has…mehr

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Set against a backdrop of debates about the so-called "end of history," "the death of the subject" and "the end of art," as well as the various forms of the "past" that became prevalent in the late twentieth century, Jeremy Tambling introduces the idea of "the posthumous" as a means of thinking about our relationship to the past, to death and to history. In analyzing selected texts dealing with posthumous existence by Shakespeare, Dickens, Nietzsche, and Benjamin, Tambling provides readings concerned with the question of why we should give attention to history, and to past texts, if there has been an irretrievable 'break' with history, and where history has turned into the heritage industry.
Autorenporträt
Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is author of Henry James: Critical Issues (Macmillan, 2000), Opera and the Culture of Fascism (Clarendon Press, 1996), Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold (Macmillan, 1995), Narrative and Ideology (Open University Press, 1991), Confession: Sexuality, Sin, the Subject (MUP, 1990), Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia (CUP, 1988), What is Literary Language? (Open University Press, 1988) and Opera, Ideology and Film (MUP, 1987). He is editor of E.M. Forster: A New Casebook (Macmillan, 1995), David Copperfield (Penguin Classics, 1996), Bleak House: A New Casebook (Macmillan, 1998) and Dante: A Critical Reader (Longman, 1998).