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Disappointment : its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature / Michael Mack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mack, Michael, 1969-2020, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Disappointment in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Politics and literature.
- Disappointment.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Spinoza and the Simultaneity of Promise and Disappointment
- Chapter 1: Spinoza and F. H. Jacobi's Idealist Disavowal of Disappointment or How Romanticism Questions Idealizations of the Anthropocene
- Chapter 2: Rendering Dialectics Disappointing: Spinoza's Specter Haunting the Anthropocene from Romanticism to Postmodernism in Literature and Science
- Chapter 3: The Destructive Element: Keats and Conrad or How Romanticism Avows Idealism's Disavowed Disappointment
- Chapter 4: Modernity's Promise and Its Disavowed Disappointment: Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism Out of the Sources of Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- Chapter 5: The Trajectory of Conrad's Novel of Disavowed Disappointment: Hegel's Dialectics, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Saul Bellow's Ravelstein
- Chapter 6: Political Promises and History's Disappointments: Leo Strauss as the Esoteric Center ofBellow's Ravelstein and the Critique ofGrand Political Promises
- Chapter 7: Disappointment in the Age of the Anthropocene: How D. H. Lawrence and Kafka Render Dialectics Inoperative
- Chapter 8: Disappointing Expectations of Redemption: Modern Jewish Writing and Thought
- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Expecting Disappointment, or, from Pynchon's, Roth's, Strauss's, and Vonnegut's Postmodernism to Anna Burns's Milkman and D. F. Wallace's The Pale King
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 12, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Mack, Michael Disappointment : Its Modern Roots from Spinoza to Contemporary Literature
- ISBN:
- 9781501366895
- 1501366890
- 9781501366888
- 1501366882
- 9781501366901
- 1501366904
- Publisher Number:
- 99986137623
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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