Christopher Bundock

Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781442630703
• ISBN-10: 1442630701
• Artikelnr.: 45057923

Autorenporträt

Christopher M. Bundock is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Regina.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Prophecy and the Temporality of Being Historical
1 Secularization and the New Ends of History
2 Prophecy within the Limits of Reason Alone
3 Ghostlier Demarcations: Mysticism, Trauma, Anachronism
4 Beyond the Sign of History: Prophetic Semiotics and the Future's
Reflection
5 The Future of an Allusion: Temporalization and Figure in Lyrical Drama
6 Auguries of Experience: Impossible History and Infernal Redemption
7 The Preface and Other False Starts: Prophesying the Book to Come
8 "a woman clothed in the Sun": Female Prophecy and Catastrophe
Afterword
Bibliography