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Cormac McCarthy: A complexity theory of literature offers the first sustained analysis of complexity science in McCarthy's literary works. McCarthy's fiction makes a significant case study demonstrating how literature can help us imagine and grapple with complex systems and crises, from global economic inequality to climate change.

Climatic changes in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- American literature. --- Chaos theory. --- Climate crisis. --- Complexity theory. --- Contemporary literature. --- Cormac McCarthy. --- Ecocriticism. --- Economics. --- Late capitalism. --- Literary analysis.

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When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a future-centric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilities-what he calls futurity. Bringing together postwar German, Israeli, and Anglo-American literature, Eshel traces a shared trajectory of futurity in world literature. He begins by examining German works of fiction and the debates they spurred over the future character of Germany's public sphere. Turning to literary works by Jewish-Israeli writers as they revisit Israel's political birth, he shows how these stories inspired a powerful reconsideration of Israel's identity. Eshel then discusses post-1989 literature-from Ian McEwan's Black Dogs to J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year-revealing how these books turn to events like World War II and the Iraq War not simply to make sense of the past but to contemplate the political and intellectual horizon that emerged after 1989. Bringing to light how reflections on the past create tools for the future, Futurity reminds us of the numerous possibilities literature holds for grappling with the challenges of both today and tomorrow.

History in literature. --- German literature --- Hebrew literature --- Histoire --- Littérature allemande --- Littérature hébraïque --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- History in literature --- Jews --- Jewish literature --- History and criticism --- Literature --- E-books --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire (discipline) --- trauma, modernity, contemporary literature, criticism, literary theory, future, jewish-israeli writers, israel, jewish state, zionism, black dogs, ian mcewan, diary of a bad year, coetzee, war, holocaust, iraq, german, hebrew, gunter grass, expansion, becoming, tin drum, my century, crabwalk, peeling the onion, retrospection, past, nostalgia, guilt, memory, care ethics, heidegger, imagination, dissent, fascism, nazi, unsaid, silence, amends, utopia, cormac mccarthy, philip roth, paul auster, nonfiction, yehoshua kenaz, david grossman. --- Littérature allemande --- Littérature hébraïque --- Dans la littérature.