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Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism / Christopher Bundock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bundock, Christopher, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanticism--Europe.
- Romanticism.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Copyright page ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part One; 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; Part Two; 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 with the Sun": Female Prophecy and CatastropheAfterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781442630727
- 1442630728
- 9781442630710
- 144263071X
- OCLC:
- 959713733
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