Nicola Sayers

The Promise of Nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429632518
• Artikelnr.: 58493973

Autorenporträt

Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Personal Preface
Introduction
PART ONE
1 Nostalgia: Is It Really Not What It Used To Be?
2 Memory, Nostalgia, Utopia and Time
3 Nostalgia as 'Gold-bearing Rubble'
PART TWO
Interlude 1 The Hole in the Whole: Utopia Contra Instrumental Reason
4 The 'Strange Magic' of Style Rookie and Rookiemag
Interlude 2 A Space Outside: Utopia as Negation
5 Memories of Longing in The Virgin Suicides
Interlude 3 Marshalling the Past: Utopia versus Once Upon a Time
6 Nostalgia in Photographs of Detroit's 'Abandoned Spaces'
Conclusion
Bibliography