Beschreibung:
Sascha Bru is associate professor of general and comparative literature at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has produced over a dozen books on European avant-gardes and modernisms, including Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (EUP, 2009) and the co-edited volume The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe, 1880-1940 (OUP, 2016).
Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal to anyone who wants to explore theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective.
Introduction (Sascha Bru, Ben de Bruyn, Michel Delville); I. Channels; Archive (Ed Folsom); Book (Sydney J. Shep); Medium (Julian Murphet); Translation (Thomas O. Beebee); II. Subjects / Objects; Subjects (Ortwin de Graef); Senses (Michel Delville); Animals (Carrie Rohman); Objects (Timothy Morton); Politics (David Ayers); III. Temporalities; Time (Tyrus Miller); Invention (Jed Rasula); Event (Scott McCracken); Generation (Julian Hanna); Period (Ben de Bruyn); IV. Aesthetics; Beauty (Sascha Bru); Mimesis (Thomas Pavel); Style (Sarah Posman); Popular (David Glover); Genre (Jonathan Monroe); Notes; Index.