...David Quint Abstract Contrary to the views of Hegelian critics, epic from its Homeric beginnings has projected a future time and future readers beyond its narrative frame. The genre does not close itself off in a heroic past. The episode of the Phaeacian banquet in the Odyssey places a utopian...

... Question . Berkeley : U of California P , 1995 . Print . Lista Giovanni . Futurisme. Manifestes, Proclamations, Documents . Lausanne : L'Age d'Homme , 1973 . Print . Lund Joshua McNee Malcolm , eds. Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos . Pittsburg : Críticas...

... Sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor . San Francisco : Chronicle Books , 2014 . Print . “Deep Sea Corals May Be Oldest Living Marine Organism.” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory . 2009 . Web. 10 Apr. 2016 . DeLoughrey Elizabeth . “Ordinary Futures: Interspecies Worldings...

... ( Kfor ) by Shimon Adaf (2010). These texts draw on biblical or Rabbinic Hebrew, Jewish sources, and Jewish historical events (specifically the destruction of the First and Second Temples), making them just as much about a dystopian past as they are about a dystopian future. They are, in other words...

..., experiments in narrative temporality and an explicit negation of the temporality of Bildung represent the vexed relationship to futurity in those regions of the global South most disadvantaged by the long history of their entanglement with modernity. Yet, in these works, this turning away from the temporality...

... and techniques. It argues that Dolly City reflects, thematically and formally, a shift between two biopolitical models of governance: from a welfare model based on a calculable and statistical futurity and on communal sacrifice, to a neoliberal model grounded in a speculative futurity and a zero-risk principle...

..., as central to their imaginings of an inclusive political future in Israel/Palestine in the post-Oslo era. In revivifying eighteenth-century Acre and the city’s triumphant defeat of Napoleon in 1799, Hlehel’s creatively embellished historical novel curates an effortless cascade of emotionally contagious...

... a national epic celebrating Peter's “young Russia,” a Russia no longer fettered by its “Byzantine” roots and with a glorious future, and his more recently developed desire to create for his homeland what Hannah Arendt has called a “foundational narrative”—that is, a narrative that not only announces...

... prevail in Sacred Hunger , some Enlightenment ideals have been realized and even survive into the future. Thus, I argue, if both Michel Tournier and Sven Delblanc present an Enlightenment that has foundered on the rocks of human avarice and cruelty, Barry Unsworth chooses to salvage some of the wreckage...

..., and land, Shlonsky challenged the styles and themes of his Hebrew poetic predecessors. At the same time, he experimented with the modernist forms and aesthetics that held sway in European culture in the first decades of the twentieth century, mixing aspects of Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism...

... of the openness of Russia's historical future. Mediating between the novel and its contemporary journalistic discourse with the help of the formal (narratological) categories of character and emplotment, I argue that the novelistic search for the proper emplotment of its enigmatic hero corresponds to the search...

... of interpretation. But in light of the fact that no future scholar will be able to escape reading texts of world literature in translation, this essay simultaneously calls for a renewed discussion of the contested status of so-called universals within the discourse of Comparative Literature today. University...

... the privileged position given to the family (and kinship in general) as the building block of collectivity, I argue that democracy as a politics of friendship must contend with the uncertainty of fully working out any present or future collectivity. University of Oregon 2011 Ahmad, Aijaz. “Jameson's...

... into the future even as they revise the past. The visual archive of the plantation, then, as unvarying and stable as it may appear (Tara, say, or the Lyceum), is really a composite consisting of all the photographs and portraits of plantations produced and circulated for the past two centuries or so...

..., to fill Urdu’s possible legacies through translation. Miraji established possible futures for Urdu through bygone chronicles, stories, and lyrical possibilities that were not subservient to the fluctuations of value that vernacularization carried with it. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oregon 2018...

... a corrective with insights for both the future of South Asian Anglophone literature and the field of World Literature. 13 See, for example, Mudrovicic ’s account of polemics from 1967 to 1969 between Julio Cortázar and José María Arguedas, 1967–1969. 12 Castillo reinforces a point made...

..., and ambiguity about the future, loosely in the vein of Fredric Jameson’s linking of death to utopia and Walter Benjamin’s vision of “mortification.” To Walter Benjamin vis-à-vis Flatley, melancholia is a “historical problem related to the experience of modernity; melancholy is the evidence of the historicity...

... engagement with questions about the moral and social future. postwar culture Vittorio De Sica Albert Camus Wolfgang Borchert hope Copyright © 2020 by University of Oregon 2020 WHEN GERMANY SURRENDERED, in May 1945, much of Europe was devastated. The loss of life was unfathomable. Hunger...

... future, practices the author situates in the broad field of Marxist-informed utopian studies. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023 Ernst Bloch Hari Kunzru fascism utopianism post-truth This article explores the reconstitution of the political...

...Anindita Banerjee; Gabriella Safran Abstract This special issue provokes a radical reconsideration of the pasts and futures of world literature thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, accompanied by triumphalist declarations of the end of history. Conceived in the wake of racial...