Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations
Mantra Mukim, "Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations "
English | ISBN: 0367774542 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 34 MB
English | ISBN: 0367774542 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 34 MB
If ‘event’ is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature.
As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer sub-disciplines of literary and critical theory, including close reading, bio-politics, world literature, and eco-criticism, this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities, as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same, and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory, comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike.