In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.
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In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.
In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.
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In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.
Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- List of Illustrations -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Prophecy and the Temporality of Being Historical -- -- Part One -- -- 1. Secularization and the New Ends of History -- -- 2. Prophecy within the Limits of Reason Alone -- -- 3. Ghostlier Demarcations: Mysticism, Trauma, Anachronism -- -- 4. Beyond the Sign of History: Prophetic Semiotics and the Future’s Reflection -- -- Part Two -- -- 5. The Future of an Allusion: Temporalization and Figure in Lyrical Drama -- -- 6. Auguries of Experience: Impossible History and Infernal Redemption -- -- 7. The Preface and Other False Starts: Prophesying the Book to Come -- -- 8. “a woman clothed with the Sun”: Female Prophecy and Catastrophe -- -- Afterword -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index