Cold War Criticism And The Politics Of Skepticism

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195359923

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Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism by Tobin Siebers Pdf

In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership characterized by Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler lies behind the preoccupation with "intention," "affect," and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age of propaganda motivates the fascination with the guiles of language, undecidability, and deconstruction. The age of superpowers provides the dominant metaphor in the new historicism's analysis of the technology of power. All three ages of criticism reflect the skepticism of the Cold War mentality, and this skepticism, Siebers posits, has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism in an effective way. A trenchant analysis of postwar theory, Siebers's work presents a new view of the politics of criticism and a surprising vision of what theory must do if it is to enter the post Cold War era successfully.

Author : T. Nardin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137507020

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Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism by T. Nardin Pdf

In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott's views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal democracy, and how democracy can defeat anti-liberal politics are explored in ten penetrating essays.

Author : John Whalen-Bridge
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025206688X

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Political Fiction and the American Self by John Whalen-Bridge Pdf

Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonical status, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood have grappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows that some books are more political than others, that some political novelists are more skillful than others, and that readers must allow for basic working distinctions between politics and aesthetics if we are to make useful judgments about which political novels to read, and why. "Whalen-Bridge demonstrates with clarity and power that the American political novel should not be ostracized but celebrated as a genre equal or superior to poetic and aesthetic ones." -- Tobin Siebers, author of Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Author : Bhakti Shringarpure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515828

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Cold War Assemblages by Bhakti Shringarpure Pdf

This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postcolony itself was shaped, epistemologically and materially, by Cold War discourses, policies, narratives, and paradigms. Ruptures and appropriated trajectories in the postcolonial world can be attributed to the ways in which the Cold War became the afterlife of European colonialism. Through a speculative assemblage, this book connects the dots, deftly taking the reader from Frantz Fanon to Aaron Swartz, and from assassinations in the Third World to American multiculturalism. Whether the Cold War subverted the dream of decolonization or created a compromised cultural sphere, this book makes those rich palimpsests visible.

Author : Jina B. Kim,Joshua Kupetz,Crystal Yin Lie,Cynthia Wu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472038497

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Sex, Identity, Aesthetics by Jina B. Kim,Joshua Kupetz,Crystal Yin Lie,Cynthia Wu Pdf

How Tobin Siebers' foundational work in disability studies resonates in the field today

Author : John Christian Laursen,Gianni Paganini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442649217

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Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by John Christian Laursen,Gianni Paganini Pdf

Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Author : A. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137274854

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British Fiction and the Cold War by A. Hammond Pdf

This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age.

Author : Richard Alan Schwartz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476610788

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The Cold War Reference Guide by Richard Alan Schwartz Pdf

For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies—capitalism and communism—and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union. Written in accessible language for readers with little or no previous knowledge about the subject, this work is first a general history of the Cold War, with an overview of its root causes and the policies and theories that were in place from 1947 through 1990. A thoroughly annotated chronology of important Cold War events follows. Short biographies of some of the major United States political figures and world leaders conclude the work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134272556

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Cold War Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Nelson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231528696

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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America by Deborah Nelson Pdf

Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with McCarthyism. Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.

Author : Alexander Dunst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317360803

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Madness in Cold War America by Alexander Dunst Pdf

This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason—romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia’s superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology.

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440852121

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The Cold War [2 volumes] [2 volumes] by Priscilla Roberts Pdf

This detailed two-volume set tells the story of the Cold War, the dominant international event of the second half of the 20th century, through a diverse selection of primary source documents. One of the most extensive to date, this set of primary source documents studies the Cold War comprehensively from its beginning, with the emergence of the world's first communist government in Russia in late 1917, to its end, in 1991. All of the key events, including the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the nuclear arms race, are discussed in detail. The primary sources provide insight into the thinking of all participants, drawing on Western, Soviet, Asian, and Latin American perspectives. In The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents primary documents are organized chronologically, allowing readers to appreciate the ramifications of the Cold War within a clear time frame. Extensive interpretive commentary provides in-depth background and context for each document. This work is an indispensable reference for all readers seeking to become deeply knowledgeable about the Cold War.

Author : Arthur F. Redding
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604733266

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Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers by Arthur F. Redding Pdf

The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism. This book traces the historical contours of this manufactured consent by considering the ways in which authors, playwrights, and directors participated in, responded to, and resisted the construction of Cold War discourses.

Author : Jean FRANCO,Jean Franco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674037175

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The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City by Jean FRANCO,Jean Franco Pdf

The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts by Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1645 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315480831

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.