Literature And Politics Today

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9798216112211

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Literature and Politics Today by M. Keith Booker Pdf

Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history. Literary works have often engaged political issues, and many political writings give close attention to literary concerns. This encyclopedia explores the complex relationship between literature and politics through detailed entries written by expert contributors on authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements, covering specific themes, concepts, and genres related to literature and politics from the 20th century to the present. The work covers cover authors that include Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Philip K. Dick, W.E.B. Du Bois, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, and Virginia Woolf, just to mention a few. International in scope, Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama covers writing ranging from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, with special emphasis on works written in English. The content of the some 150 alphabetically arranged entries is ideal for high school students working on assignments involving literature to explore such current yet historically ongoing social issues as censorship and propaganda. This book is appropriate for public libraries where it will serve to support student research and to help general readers learn more about enduring political concerns through literary works. Academic libraries will find this reference a valuable guide for undergraduates studying literature, history, political science, law, and other disciplines.

Author : Michael Keren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1552387992

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Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium by Michael Keren Pdf

Keren's methodology yields insights into political and social theories . . . Politics and Literature at the Turn of the Millenium provides a clear introduction to contemporary literature-- suitable for undergraduates--with useful commentary on escapism, evil, compassion, and justice. --Allan Hepburn, University of Toronto Quarterly

Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781382639

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Being Contemporary by Lia Nicole Brozgal,Sara Kippur Pdf

A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field.

Author : Katharina Donn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Politics and literature
ISBN : 0367457466

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The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century by Katharina Donn Pdf

How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.

Author : J. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230251144

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What is Radical Politics Today? by J. Pugh Pdf

A crisis makes you rethink your life. The recent economic crisis is no exception. All of us are now thinking how the world could be run differently. Despite this, a radical alternative has hardly emerged to mobilize the masses. Written for the public and students, this book explores the character and spirit of radical politics in our times.

Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230508408

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Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today by C. Bloom Pdf

In 1997, thirty years after the demise of 'Swinging London', Britain again seemed to be the centre of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a new Labour government and a young and enterprising prime minister. 'Cool Britannia' seemed to sum up the new spirit of the 1990s in the hip language of the 1960s. In this book, Bloom offers a radical and controversial guide to the possibilities for intellectual life, popular culture, literary production and political authority in multi-cultural Britain in 2000 and beyond.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781465441072

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The Politics Book by DK Pdf

Learn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Politics in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Politics Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Politics, with: - More than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Politics Book is a captivating introduction to the world's greatest thinkers and their political big ideas that continue to shape our lives today, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Delve into the development of long-running themes, like attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India, all through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Politics Questions, Simply Explained This engaging overview explores the big political ideas such as capitalism, communism, and fascism, exploring their beginnings and social contexts - and the political thinkers who have made significant contributions. If you thought it was difficult to learn about governing bodies and affairs, The Politics Book presents key information in a clear layout. Learn about the ideas of ancient and medieval philosophers and statesmen, as well as the key personalities of the 16th to the 21st centuries that have shaped political thinking, policy, and statecraft. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Politics Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Author : Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0742532593

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Democracy's Literature by Patrick J. Deneen,Joseph Romance Pdf

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that philosophic education of America's citizens would best be undertaken. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally advanced through literature. Delving into the works of authors ranging from Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Octavia Butler, these essays reflect on the close relationship between democracy and literature. They convey an understanding that the greatest American literary works are also works of profound philosophical insight. Through careful analysis, Democracy's Literature illustrates that democracy and literature are natural partners, forging a relationship that America's greatest authors have long realized in their subtle efforts to craft a democratic public philosophy.

Author : Thomas N. Habinek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400822515

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The Politics of Latin Literature by Thomas N. Habinek Pdf

This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Seneca. He shows that, from its beginnings in the late third century b.c. to its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later, classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and, more particularly, aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect, for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority, such as patriarchy, religious ritual, cultural identity, and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny, or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures, aloof from mundane political concerns--a view, he shows, that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing.

Author : JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714549150

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POLITICS AND LITERATURE. by JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE Pdf

Author : Matthew Stratton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000872712

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The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English by Matthew Stratton Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political. Featuring contributions from 44 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: Connecting Literature and Politics; Constituting the Polis; Periods and Histories; Media, Genre, and Techne; and Spaces. Organized around familiar concepts—such as humans, animals, workers, empires, nations, and states—rather than theoretical schools, it will help readers to understand the ways in which literature affects our understanding of who is capable of political action, who has been included in and excluded from politics, and how different spaces are imagined to be political. It also offers a series of engagements with key moments in literary and political history from 1066 to the present in order to assess and reassess the utility of conventional modes of periodization. The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of literary studies, which will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions within broader contexts.

Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781784780029

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Against World Literature by Emily Apter Pdf

Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant paradigm in the humanities, one grounded in market-driven notions of readability and universal appeal—Apter proposes a plurality of “world literatures” oriented around philosophical concepts and geopolitical pressure points. The history and theory of the language that constructs World Literature is critically examined with a special focus on Weltliteratur, literary world systems, narrative ecosystems, language borders and checkpoints, theologies of translation, and planetary devolution in a book set to revolutionize the discipline of comparative literature.

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015031852059

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News by W. Lance Bennett Pdf

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen,Diana Loxley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136492280

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Literature Politics & Theory by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen,Diana Loxley Pdf

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Adam J. Sorkin
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087972448X

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Politics and the Muse by Adam J. Sorkin Pdf

These fourteen original essays on the politics of literature investigate aspects of our understanding of the political muse, with a focus on American writing since World War II. Essays include: "American Literature, Politics, and the Last Good War," "The Literary Art of the Hollywood Ten," "The Plight of the Left-Wing Screenwriter," and "Amiri Baraka and the Politics of Popular Culture."