Nationalism And Irony

Author : Yoon Sun Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190289973

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Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous character of Britain's identity, structure, and history. Their irony publicly fractured while upholding sentimental fictions of national wholeness. Britain's politics of deference, its reverence for tradition, and its celebration of productivity all became not only targets of irony but occasions for its development as a patriotic institution. This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism.

Author : Yoon Sun Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198036795

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Nationalism and Irony by Yoon Sun Lee Pdf

Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as Edmund Burke, Walter Scott, and Thomas Carlyle, accentuated rather than disguised the anomalous character of Britain's identity, structure, and history. Their irony publicly fractured while upholding sentimental fictions of national wholeness. Britain's politics of deference, its reverence for tradition, and its celebration of productivity all became not only targets of irony but occasions for its development as a patriotic institution. This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010725153

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Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature-nationalism, Irony and Commitment by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452900833

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Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Anonim Pdf

In three elegant and important essays, originally published as pamphlets by Field Day Theatre Company, Terry Eagleton analyzes nationalism, identifying the radical contradictions that necessarily beset it; Fredric Jameson pursues the contradiction between the limited experience of the individual and the dispersed conditions that govern it; and Edward Said explores the work of Yeats as an exemplary and early instance of the process of decolonization. The introduction is by Seamus Deane. Paper edition (1863-1), $9.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Thailand
ISBN : 0877277931

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Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam Over Forty Years by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson Pdf

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work on the politics and cultures of Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. His early studies of Indonesia led to the publication of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, a book that profoundly changed the way people understand modern states. Banned from returning to Indonesia after his interpretation of the 1965 coup was published, Anderson shifted his attention to Thailand. This collection of essays gathers in one book Anderson's iconoclastic analyses of Siam (Thailand), its political institutions and bloody upheavals, its literature, authors, and contemporary cinema. The volume begins with the challenging essay "Studies of the Thai State: The State of Thai Studies," followed by chapters that map shifts of power between the Left and Right in Thailand, the role of the monarchy, and the significance of the military. The final essays track Anderson's own evolution as a student of Siam and his growing, more playful interest in billboards, ephemera, and film. Together, these works demonstrate an extraordinary scholar's commitment to exploring Thailand.

Author : Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231541114

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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi Pdf

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.

Author : Roger Crozier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171989

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Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism by Roger Crozier Pdf

Zheng Chenggong, better known in the West by his Hokkien honorific Koxinga, was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan, and established a dynasty which ruled the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. Crozier analyzes the historical Koxinga and the myths that have grown about him over time.

Author : Göran Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000364873

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Masochistic Nationalism by Göran Adamson Pdf

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions, while antagonistic on the surface, are in fact similar: nationalism and multiculturalism are two names for one idea, the difference between them being simply a matter of geography; both outlooks have their roots in romanticism, sentimentalism, arrogance and a racist outlook. Rather than defend either approach, this volume urges us to consider the importance of roots and argues for greater consideration of what classical liberalism, socialism and feminism can do to break this impasse in our political thinking, with a concern for equality and concern for solidarity, regardless of cultural practice. As such it will appeal to social and political theorists with interests in political sociology and culture.

Author : Jonathan Lear
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674416888

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A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear Pdf

In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into AmericaÕs heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst to once again forge a radical way forward, by arguing that no genuinely human life is possible without irony. Becoming human should not be taken for granted, Lear writes. It is something we accomplish, something we get the hang of, and like Kierkegaard and Plato, Lear claims that irony is one of the essential tools we use to do this. For Lear and the participants in his Socratic dialogue, irony is not about being cool and detached like a player in a Woody Allen film. That, as Johannes Climacus, one of KierkegaardÕs pseudonymous authors, puts it, Òis something only assistant professors assume.Ó Instead, it is a renewed commitment to living seriously, to experiencing every disruption that shakes us out of our habitual ways of tuning out of life, with all its vicissitudes. While many over the centuries have argued differently, Lear claims that our feelings and desires tend toward order, a structure that irony shakes us into seeing. LearÕs exchanges with his interlocutors strengthen his claims, while his experiences as a practicing psychoanalyst bring an emotionally gripping dimension to what is at stakeÑthe psychic costs and benefits of living with irony.

Author : George Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0886292573

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Lament for a Nation by George Grant Pdf

Author : G. Cheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137012029

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Nationalism and Human Rights by G. Cheng Pdf

By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty.

Author : Emer Nolan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134960859

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James Joyce and Nationalism by Emer Nolan Pdf

James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism. In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the relationship between modernism and nationalism, tracing the applicability of alternative notions of nationalism to the various phases of Joyce's work. Nolan also brings post-colonial and feminist theories to a close re-reading of Joyce's works. This insightful and challenging work provides a polemical introduction to Joyce and is a much needed contribution to the vast field of Joyce studies. James Joyce and Nationalism is a ground-breaking and theoretically engaged intervention into debates about Joyce's politics and the politics of modernism.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521367816

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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty Pdf

In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Joyce, James, 1882-1941- Eleştiri ve yorum
ISBN : OCLC:984383472

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Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton Pdf

Nationalism--irony and commitment / Terry Eagleton -- Modernism and imperialism / Fredric Jameson -- Yeats and decolonization / Edward W. Said.

Author : John L. Comaroff,Paul C. Stern
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ethnic relations
ISBN : 288449166X

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Perspectives on Nationalism and War by John L. Comaroff,Paul C. Stern Pdf

This volume considers recent studies that move beyond primordialism and its antithesis, social constructivism, to search for new insights to illuminate the nature of nationalism and its link to war. The authors also explore the role of shared interests, the history of peoples, elites and states, political imperatives, propaganda, and psychological predispositions. This combination provides a brillant, new look at nationalism and war-one that delves deeply into ethnic identity and the willingness of people to fight and die for nation-states.