Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past
by
Amir Eshel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century’s catastrophes at the expense of literature’s...