Hope: A Literary History

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  • Hope: A Literary History Book Detail

  • Author : Adam Potkay
  • Release Date : 2022-01-27
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 435
  • ISBN 13 : 1009084070
  • File Size : 36,36 MB

Hope: A Literary History by Adam Potkay PDF Summary

Book Description: Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do arguments against hope today remain useful? If hope sounds to us like a good thing, that reaction stems from a progressive political tradition grounded in the French Revolution, aspects of Romantic literature and the influence of the Abrahamic faiths. Ranging both wide and deep, Adam Potkay examines the cases for and against hope found in literature from antiquity to the present. Drawing imaginatively on several fields and creatively juxtaposing poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology and political theory, the author brings continually fresh insights to a subject of perennial interest. This is a bold and illuminating new treatment of a long-running literary debate as complex as it is compelling.

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