The Literature Of Politics The Politics Of Literature

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Polity
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : David S. Vanderhooft,Abraham Winitzer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714549150

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POLITICS AND LITERATURE. by JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE Pdf

Author : D. Philips,K. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Michael Keren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Jean Paulhan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Katharina Donn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Talat Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000083941

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Literature and Politics in the Age of Nationalism by Talat Ahmed Pdf

This book aims to provide a historical account of the All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (AIPWA). In a structured narrative, it focuses on the political processes inside India, events and circumstances in South Asia and the debates and literary movements in Europe and the United States to demonstrate how the literary project was specifically informed by literary-political movements. It explores the theorisation of literature and politics that informed progressive writing and argues that the progressive conception of literature, art and politics was closer to the theorisation of two thinkers of whom the writers themselves knew very little – Leon Trotsky and Antonio Gramsci. The book charts the progressive movement’s extension into the cultural arena through the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) and the deepening of its nation-wide character through a progressive nationalism instilled with left-wing ideology. One of the important aims of the AIPWA project was to advance the development of a popular vernacular based on the demotic language of north India – Hindustani. The book locates this issue within the broader nationalist discussion on the national language. Contrary to what is implied by much of the previous scholarship, the book argues that the progressive movement did survive the ravages of partition and that the progressives maintained organisations in both India and Pakistan. It looks at the short-lived but very colourful history of the PWA in Pakistan, using PWA documents, government records and personal testimonies. Arguing that literary output and cultural production cannot be understood, let alone interpreted, outside the context of the nationalist movement, war, independence and partition, the book presents a narrative that necessarily transcends disciplinary boundaries between literature, politics and history. Supplemented with literary and archival sources and oral testimonies from the members of the movement, it pr

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen,Diana Loxley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Anthony J. Cascardi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Betty Jean Craige
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Azucena G. Blanco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110669008

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Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault by Azucena G. Blanco Pdf

This study proposes a revised interpretation of Foucault’s views on literature. It has been argued that the philosopher’s interest in literature was limited to the 1960s and of a mostly depoliticized nature. However, Foucault’s previously unpublished later works suggest a different reality, showing a sustained interest in literature and its politics. In the light of this new material, the book repositions Foucault's ideas within recent debates on the politics of literature.