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Insane Run: Railroad and Dark Modernity

Insane Run: Railroad and Dark Modernity

Fazan, Teresa
Burzyński, Jan
Kowalska, Malgorzata

Hardcover

Series: Modernity in Question, Book 14

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 363183182X
ISBN13: 9783631831823
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 28 2020
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane run ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word dark used to describe modernity is understood as a metaphor of gradual and permanent devaluation of the idea of progress, as a fading hope for the future of Europe as bright, predictable, prosperous, and safe. The darkening also receives a literal sense. At the end of the nineteenth century, darkness found its way back to the public space - in the theaters, panoramas, dioramas, and love tunnels, which awaited the visitors of American and European amusement parks.

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