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Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031520266
Author : Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3031520254
There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field – particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature. This volume offers analytically acute and culturally rich ways of understanding how it is that we can productively think philosophically about political literature and what kind of distinctive conceptual progress we can make by doing so. Given the extremely widespread interest in political issues, this volume will strike resonant chords far and wide, while offering something that has not been done quite in this way and for which the time certainly seems right.
Author : Andrea T. Baumeister,John Horton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134794461
This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and diverse ways in which literature may enrich political theorising, as well as considering some of the problems to which this may give rise. The theorists discussed include Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Martha Nussbaum. There are literary references from Greek tradegy, Jonathan Swift, Brian Moore, Elizabeth Bowen and contemporary feminist utopian fiction. All the contributors have a long-standing interest in the relations between literature and moral and political thought. They are concerned not to be restricted by conventional academic boundaries and are not united by any party-line or uniformity of intellectual commitments. This volume will be of great interest to all students engaged in the study of politics and literature.
Author : Teppo Eskelinen
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786999566
The Revival of Political Imagination offers a unique examination of the methodological aspects of utopia. Discussing utopia as a tool for social criticism, method and imaginative spaces - rather than in terms of its content - this volume analyses the function of utopias, to develop utopias as methodology and to show how instrumental utopian modes of thought can be in such diverse fields such as education, labour, and housing. Including discussions of traditional and contemporary utopias, as well as various forms of expression of utopian hope, from literature to social science and cultural practices, The Revival of Political Imagination is both analytical and practical in its elucidation of how political theory can function to foster our imaginative skills.
Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781250800022
WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORK From Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, this is one of the most practical guides to storytelling that you will ever read. The world is on fire. So tell your story. Things are scary right now. We’re all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it’s easy to feel helpless. But we’re not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency, Never Say You Can’t Survive is the perfect manual for creativity in unprecedented times. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Michael J. Blouin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501381720
The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency are being radically re-written-consider, for example, the distinctive myths that accompanied the ascent of the Obama and Trump administrations-and many readers of all stripes are radically reimagining the office and its holder. Placing these changes within a broader cultural context, Michael J. Blouin investigates narratives involving fictional presidents, from the supposedly factual to the outright fantastical, within their distinct literary and historical moments. The author considers representative texts including works penned by James Fenimore Cooper from the Jacksonian moment, Gore Vidal in the age of Nixon and Vietnam, and Philip Roth in the neoliberal period. Through detailed readings that question how American presidents function as characters within the popular imagination, this book examines the presidency as a complex, ever-evolving trope, and in so doing enhances our appreciation of American literature's inextricable link with American politics.
Author : Stefano Gualeni,Riccardo Fassone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350277106
What roles do imaginary games have in story-telling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the audience will never play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literary theory and game studies, this book provides the first in-depth investigation into the significance of fictional games within fictional worlds. Drawing from contemporary cinema and literature, from The Hunger Games to the science fiction of Iain M. Banks, Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone introduce five key functions that different types of imaginary games have in worldbuilding. First, fictional games can emphasize the dominant values and ideologies of the fictional society they belong to. Second, some imaginary games function in fictional worlds as critical, utopian tools, inspiring shifts in the thinking and political orientation of the fictional characters. Third, a few fictional games are conducive to the transcendence of a particular form of being, such as the overcoming of human corporeality. Fourth, imaginary games within works of fiction can deceptively blur the boundaries between the contingency of play and the irrevocable seriousness of “real life”, either camouflaging life as a game or disguising a game as something with more permanent consequences. And fifth, they can function as meta-reflexive tools, suggesting critical and/or satirical perspectives on how actual games are designed, played, sold, manipulated, experienced, understood and utilized as part of our culture. With illustrations in every chapter bringing the imaginary games to life, Gualeni and Fassone creatively inspire us to consider fictional games anew: not as moments of playful reprieve in a storyline, but as significant and multi-layered expressive devices.
Author : R. Trousdale
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230106888
Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.
Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317268284
This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More’s classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.
Author : Martin Roth
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781387438808
This book considers videogames as spaces of political philosophy. Emerging from a negotiation between designers, player and computer, they prompt us to rethink life in common and imagine alternatives to the status quo. Several case studies on science fictional videogames from Japan serve to demonstrate this potential for thought-provoking play.
Author : Suzanne Keen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137439598
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Author : Corrinne Harol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009273480
Corrinne Harol reveals how secularization catalysed conservative writers to respond and thereby contribute impactfully to literary history.
Author : Yaron Ezrahi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025752
In our era of mass electronic communications, political realities are produced by believable fictions that echo popular desires.
Author : Elana Gomel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441178831
Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporality, literary incarnations can be found in the worlds of science fiction. By engaging classic science-fictional conventions, such as time travel, alternative history, and the end of the world, and by situating these conventions in their cultural context, this book offers a new and fresh perspective on the narratology and cultural significance of time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9735589931
