The concept of 'time-image', this book argues, holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural and aesthetic works. Many works that would not ordinarily be thought to be historical artifacts reveal their intrinsic historical in light of this innovative interpretative concept. The book's first section, 'Time-Images as Theory and Historiography', considers alternative temporalities underlying historicizing theories and specific practices of history. Examples treated here include the notion of 'retroavantgardism', works by the Frankfurt School on the interrelations of images and history, and the Mass Observation's dream documentation project. The second section, 'Time-Images in Modernist and Postmodernist Literature', considers literary instances in which alternative notions of historical time are engaged. These include discussions of Wyndham and 'cultural revolution', Theodor Adorno's reading of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's use of Antonio Gramsci in the practice of poetry and philology. The third section, 'Moving Images of Time', discusses questions of cinema including children's experience in films depicting traumatic historical events, the Quay Brothers' animated adaptation of Bruno Schulz's 'Street of Crocodiles', and Sergei Eisenstein's and Charles Olson's engagements in Mexico with pictographic representation, etymology, and archeological time.

Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in Twentieth-Century Theory, Literature, and Art

Arts & Photography

Tyrus Miller

History & Criticism

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The spring issue of the Revew of Contemporary Fiction features a casebook study edited by David Andrews on Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things--a darkly comic recreation of the New York artistic and literary world of the 1950s and 60s told in the weary voice of a cynical and sardonic narrator.

Review of Contemporary Fiction Spring 2003: Casebook Study of Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things

Literature & Fiction

David Andrews

Marguerite Young

Joseph Tabbi

Kevin A Boon

Miriam Fuchs

Literary

Dalkey Archive Pr

When the Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic György Lukács returned to Hungary from Moscow after World War II, he engaged in a highly active phase of writing and speaking about the democratic culture needed to exorcise the remnants of fascism and to create the conditions for the advance of socialism in Central Europe. His essays of the period, including the influential volume Literature and Democracy, appear here for the first time in English translation. Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics and social history, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, these essays offer a new look at one of the most influential Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Culture of Peoples Democracy (Historical Materialism Book)

History

György Lukács. Edited

Europe

BRILL

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