Literature As Politics Politics As Literature

Author : David S. Vanderhooft,Abraham Winitzer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068671

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Literature as Politics, Politics as Literature by David S. Vanderhooft,Abraham Winitzer Pdf

This volume, in celebration of Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, includes twenty-eight illuminating essays on ancient Near Eastern history and literature, which focus especially on the intersection of these fields. Contributors include one of Machinist’s teachers, several of his students, and numerous colleagues and friends. These essays probe topics for which Machinist’s work has often set new standards. And in the spirit of the honoree and his interests, these comparative studies encompass Babel, Bibel, and more. In them, Assyriologists contend with biblical cruxes and biblicists engage Assyriological research, while classicists and Hittitologists participate with considerations of their respective disciplines within a broad cross-cultural context. The volume is a must for anyone committed to the ongoing comparative study of the ancient Near East, and within that framework, the historical study of the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Polity
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714549150

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POLITICS AND LITERATURE. by JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724337

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Politics vs. Literature by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Politics vs. Literature, the fourth in the Orwell’s Essays series, is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Having been given a copy of the book on his eighth birthday, Orwell knows it inside out, and thinks highly of it; it is ‘pessimistic’, though, he says – ‘it descends into political partisanship of a narrow kind,’ designed to ‘humiliate man by reminding him that he is weak and ridiculous.’ Using the book as an example of enjoying a book whose author one cannot stand, Orwell goes on to say that he considers Gulliver’s Travels a work of art, leaving the reader to reconsider the books on their own shelves. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Emily Apter
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Michael Keren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Peter Marks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443836036

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Literature and Politics by Peter Marks Pdf

George Orwell argued that one of the four great motives for a prose writer was the desire ‘to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people’s idea of the kind of society that they should strive after’. This book contains exciting new work by established and emerging scholars that explores political literature over the last century and a half. It shows how, from The Communist Manifesto to the dystopian future of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, writers have attempted to alter people’s ideas, not always successfully. Eighteen chapters deal with a global array of writers and topics, from 1890s Australian bohemians and the anti-Peronism of Argentina’s Julio Cortázar to Aris Alexandrou’s Greek utopia and the harsh modern Zimbabwe of Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins. Other contributors critically examine the sexual politics of nineteenth century aestheticism, Theodor Adorno and Cultural Studies, Paul Auster and the altermodern, Yeats’s poetry, Celan and the Holocaust, the postmodernism of former-Yugoslavia’s Dubravka Ugrešić, or the socialism of Australian Jean Devanny. Whether through informed studies of poetry and politics in Heidegger, Richard Marsh’s gothic novel The Beetle, how Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo deal with 9/11, the cultural politics of child abuse in Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap, or how the German politician Joschka Fischer lost weight, readers will be stimulated by a collection that shows political literature’s continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage readers from around the world.

Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643710

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Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics by Anthony J. Cascardi Pdf

What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed through indirect forms including comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes's political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes's view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state.

Author : Jean Paulhan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9780252032806

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On Poetry and Politics by Jean Paulhan Pdf

The first English translation of Jean Paulhan's major essays

Author : Betty Jean Craige
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820338071

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Literature, Language, and Politics by Betty Jean Craige Pdf

Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on “Politics and the Discipline” held at the 1987 Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco. During the 1980s, debates raged both within and outside academe over curriculum, with conservatives arguing for a return to an educational philosophy based on the “classics” of Western civilization and a multi-cultural coalition of liberals, leftists, and feminists seeking to preserve the diversity of educational experience fought for since the 1960s. Engaging this crucial debate, the contributors to Literature, Language, and Politics argue that the conservative educational agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the very social well-being of the nation. They call for firm resistance to any attempts to make education conform to the social agenda of one race, one gender, one language, or one ideology; for a continuation of attempts to broaden the curriculum until it reflects the experience of women and men of all classes and all cultures. Includes essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gerald Graff, Annette Kolodny, Paul Lauter, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Catharine R. Stimpson, and Ana Celia Zentella.

Author : Matthew D. Dinan,Natalie Taylor,Denise Schaeffer,Paul E. Kirkland
Publisher : Politics, Literature, & Film
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498585892

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Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation by Matthew D. Dinan,Natalie Taylor,Denise Schaeffer,Paul E. Kirkland Pdf

Inspired and in honor of the work of noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols, the essays in this volume explore political ideas and implications in a range of works of philosophy, literature, and film from classical antiquity to the present day, creating an interdisciplinary conversation across genres.

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408846292

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Writing in the Dark by David Grossman Pdf

Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian divide. In this groundbreaking collection of essays on literature and politics, he addresses the conscience of present-day Israel, a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals. Writing in the Dark ends with the speech in which Grossman famously attacked Israel's disastrous Lebanon war that tragically took the life of his twenty-one-year-old son, Uri. Moving, brave and clear-sighted, these essays on literature, political ethics and the morality of the imagination are a cri de coeur from a calm voice of reason at a time of doubt and despair.

Author : D. Philips,K. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521662389

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Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde by Paul Peppis Pdf

Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.

Author : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 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.