Announcements: On Novelty

by Kristina Mendicino

Book Overview

Walter Benjamin claimed that the notion of novelty took on unprecedented importance with the growth of high capitalism in the nineteenth century. In this book, Kristina Mendicino analyzes a selection of canonical texts that reflect profound concern with novelty and its apparent contrary, the eternal return of the same, including Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Baudelaire's lyric and prose poetry, and Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438477546
• ISBN13: 9781438477541
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"