Tales of Futures Past – Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary…

Tales of Futures Past\nby Paola Iovene\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paola Iovene\nTitle: Tales of Futures Past\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: MK - Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804789370\nISBN-10: 0804789371\nRRP: \u00A350.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book investigates how emotions and ideas about the future have shaped diverse genres, texts, and editorial practices of Chinese literature from the mid-twentieth century to 2011, introducing the concept of \""anticipation\"" as a lens to reconsider the interdependence of aesthetics and politics in Chinese socialist and postsocialist literary modernity.\n\nThis book investigates how emotions and ideas about the future have shaped diverse genres, texts, and edi.