Literary Politics

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Polity
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745645308

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Politics of Literature by Jacques Rancière Pdf

The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social structures or political struggles. The expression 'politics of literature' assumes that there is a specific connection between politics as a form of collective practice and literature as a historically determined regime of the art of writing. It implies that literature intervenes in the parceling out of space and time, place and identity, speech and noise, the visible and the invisible, that is the arena of the political. This book seeks to show how the literary revolution shatters the perceptible order that underpinned traditional hierarchies, but also why literary equality foils any bid to place literature in the service of politics or in its place. It tests its hypotheses on certain writers: Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hugo, Mallarmé, Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical intepretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization.

Author : Scott Hames
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474418157

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Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution by Scott Hames Pdf

"Considering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of 'voice', language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999"--Publisher description

Author : George S. N. Luckyj
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0822310996

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Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 by George S. N. Luckyj Pdf

Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934 illuminates the flowering of Ukrainian literature in the 1920s and the subsequent purge of Soviet Ukrainian writers during the following Stalinist decade. Upon its original publication in 1956, George S. N. Luckyj's book won the praise of American and English critics, but was violently attacked by Soviet critics who labeled it a "slander on the Soviet Union." In the current political environment of glasnost, the book's findings have been acknowledged and supported by Soviet scholars. Moreover, this new critical corroboration has enabled the author to discover that the 1930s purge was more brutal than was previously estimated. The new edition reissues Luckyj's critical work in light of current political developments and reflects the revision of previous findings. Luckyj originally drew on published Soviet sources and the important unpublished papers of a Soviet Ukrainian writer who defected to the West to describe how the brief literary revival in the Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s was abruptly halted by Communist Party controls. The present volume features a new preface, an additional chapter covering recent Soviet attitudes toward the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, and an updated bibliography.

Author : Marcus C. Levitt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0801422507

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Russian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880 by Marcus C. Levitt Pdf

In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life gathered in Moscow in 1880 to celebrate the dedication of a monument to the poet Alexander Pushkin, who had died nearly half a century earlier. Private and government forces joined to celebrate a literary figure, in a country in which monuments were usually dedicated to military or political heroes. In this richly detailed narrative history of the Pushkin Celebration and the developments that led up to it, Marcus C. Levitt explores the unique role of literature in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual life and puts Russian literary criticism, and Pushkin's posthumous reputation, into fresh perspective. Drawing on Soviet archival materials not readily available in the West, Levitt describes the preparations for the monument and the unfolding of the celebration. His sustained discussions of Turgenev's role and of Dostoevsky's famous "Pushkin Speech" shed new light on what was for both a culminating moment in their careers. In Levitt's view, the Pushkin Celebration represented the articulation of liberal, post-Emancipation hopes for an independent Russian intelligentsia and culture. His analysis of the problems faced by Russian liberalism illuminates the failure of concerted efforts to secure freedom of speech in nineteenth-century Russia.

Author : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813009766

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The Politics of Literary Theory by Philip Goldstein Pdf

Philip Goldstein examines in this study the politics of a potpourri of modern criticism - new critical, authorial, reader-oriented phenomenological, structuralist, and poststructuralist. In the process, he contends that Marxist and feminist criticism divide these critical approaches along political lines, each position, whether theoretical or practical, fractured along conservative, liberal, and radical lines.

Author : Yvonne Zivkovic
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140882

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The Literary Politics of Mitteleuropa by Yvonne Zivkovic Pdf

Shows how postwar writers in Austria and Yugoslavia re-imagined Mitteleuropa as a cultural space between nostalgia and totalitarianism.

Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019956577

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France, Social, Literary, Political by Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer Pdf

Author : Henry Lytton Bulwer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10720019

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France, Social, Literary, Political by Henry Lytton Bulwer Pdf

Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351517652

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George Orwell by John Rodden Pdf

The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of contending political interests. The exemplary clarity and force of his style, the rectitude of his political judgment along with his personal integrity have made him, as he famously noted of Dickens, a writer well worth stealing. Thus, the intellectual battles over Orwell's posthumous career point up ambiguities in Orwell's own work as they do in the motives of his would-be heirs. John Rodden's George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, breaks new ground in bringing Orwell's work into proper focus while providing much original insight into the phenomenon of literary fame.Rodden's intent is to clarify who Orwell was as a writer during his lifetime and who he became after his death. He explores the dichotomies between the novelist and the essayist, the socialist and the anti-communist and the contrast between his day-to-day activities as a journalist and his latter-day elevation to political prophet and secular saint. Rodden's approach is both contextual and textual, analyzing available reception materials on Orwell along with audiences and publications decisive for shaping his reputation. He then offers a detailed historical and biographical interpretation of the reception scene analyzing how and why did individuals and audiences cast Orwell in their own images and how these projected images served their own political needs and aspirations. Examined here are the views of Orwell as quixotic moralist, socialist renegade, anarchist, English patriot, neo-conservative, forerunner of cultural studies, and even media and commercial star. Rodden concludes with a consideration of the meaning of Or

Author : Ellen Rooney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826631

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The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory by Ellen Rooney Pdf

Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

Author : Philip Nobile
Publisher : New York : Charterhouse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015001982332

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Intellectual Skywriting; Literary Politics & the New York Review of Books by Philip Nobile Pdf

Author : James H. Cox
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781452961408

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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History by James H. Cox Pdf

Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History challenges conventional views of the past one hundred years of Native American writing, bringing Native American Renaissance and post-Renaissance writers into conversation with their predecessors. Addressing the political positions such writers have adopted, explored, and debated in their work, James H. Cox counters what he considers a “flattening” of the politics of American Indian literary expression and sets forth a new method of reading Native literature in a vexingly politicized context. Examining both canonical and lesser-known writers, Cox proposes that scholars approach these texts as “political arrays”: confounding but also generative collisions of conservative, moderate, and progressive ideas that together constitute the rich political landscape of American Indian literary history. Reviewing a broad range of genres including journalism, short fiction, drama, screenplays, personal letters, and detective fiction—by Lynn Riggs, Will Rogers, Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke, Carole laFavor, and N. Scott Momaday—he demonstrates that Native texts resist efforts to be read as advocating a particular set of politics Meticulously researched, The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History represents a compelling case for reconceptualizing the Native American Renaissance as a literary–historical constellation. By focusing on post-1968 Native writers and texts, argues Cox, critics have often missed how earlier writers were similarly entangled, hopeful, frustrated, contradictory, and unpredictable in their political engagements.

Author : S. Salaita
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230603370

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Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics by S. Salaita Pdf

N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel.

Author : D. Philips,K. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137270146

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Literary Politics by D. Philips,K. Shaw Pdf

Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Author : J. Simons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230513549

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Animals, Literature and the Politics of Representation by J. Simons Pdf

This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position, it asks the question, 'What would literary studies look like if we took animal rights seriously?' It offers critical surveys of the main themes in the history of animal rights and some of the more important contemporary positions together with readings of a wide range of literary texts from classical antiquity to the present day.