Disappointment its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature / Michael Mack.
| Author/creator | Mack, Michael |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York City : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. |
| Description | vii, 288 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Spinoza and F. H. Jacobi's idealist disavowal of disappointment or how Romanticism questions Idealisations of the Anthropocene -- Rendering Dialectics Disappointing: Spinoza's spectre haunting the Anthropocene from Romanticism to Postmodernism in literature and science -- The Destructive element: Keats & Conrad or How Romanticism avows idealism's disavowed disappointment -- Modernity's promise and its disavowed disappointment: Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism out of the Sources of Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- The trajectory of Conrad's novel of Disavowed Disappointment: Hegel's dialectics, Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Saul Bellow's Ravelstein -- Political Promises and History's Disappointments: Leo Strauss as the esoteric centre of Bellow's Ravelstein and the critique of grand political promises -- Disappointment in the age of the Anthropocene: how D H Lawrence and Kafka render dialectics inoperative -- Disappointing expectations of Redemption: Modern Jewish Writing and Thought -- Conclusion: Expecting Disappointment, or, from Pynchon's, Roth's, Strauss's and Vonnegut's postmodernism to Anna Burn's Milkman and D. F. Wallace's The Pale King. |
| Abstract | "A literary and intellectual history of the trope of disappointment and its political implications from the 17th century through today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020033590 |
| ISBN | 9781501366864 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (epdf) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |