The Politics Of Literature

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Polity
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Andrea T. Baumeister,John Horton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134794461

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Literature and the Political Imagination by Andrea T. Baumeister,John Horton Pdf

This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and diverse ways in which literature may enrich political theorising, as well as considering some of the problems to which this may give rise. The theorists discussed include Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Martha Nussbaum. There are literary references from Greek tradegy, Jonathan Swift, Brian Moore, Elizabeth Bowen and contemporary feminist utopian fiction. All the contributors have a long-standing interest in the relations between literature and moral and political thought. They are concerned not to be restricted by conventional academic boundaries and are not united by any party-line or uniformity of intellectual commitments. This volume will be of great interest to all students engaged in the study of politics and literature.

Author : Katharina Donn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Emily Apter
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0714549150

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POLITICS AND LITERATURE. by JEAN-PAUL. SARTRE Pdf

Author : Michael Keren
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 9781552381137

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The Citizen's Voice by Michael Keren Pdf

Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. He observes the infamous characters ranging from Joseph K from Franz Kafka's The Trial to Ralph from William Golding's Lord of the Flies to Chauncey Gardiner from Jerzy Kosinski's Being There and beyond while they struggle through their lives and world events. The Citizen's Voice is a refreshing contribution to civil society theory that makes a pioneering effort to cross the boundaries between politics, literature, and culture. A study of the human condition via literature this book expounds the key features of a good citizen while offering a perfect discussion piece for courses in political theory, politics and literature, and history.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Önder Çakırtaş,Şahin Kızıltaş,Antolin C. Trinidad
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527520585

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The Politics of Traumatic Literature by Önder Çakırtaş,Şahin Kızıltaş,Antolin C. Trinidad Pdf

This book is a collection of essays offering an inside view into the inner analysis of traumatic literary studies wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, psyche and memory. By making literature the partner of a dialogue with psychology, in order to better comprehend the psyche, it serves to alter the way of understanding the literary phenomenon. Featuring relevant coverage on topics such as literary production, psychology in literature, identity, and traumatic studies, this book provides in-depth analysis that is suitable for academicians, students, professionals, and researchers interested in discovering more about the relationship between psychology and literature and their effects on thinking.

Author : D. Philips,K. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : J. Simons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Author : Michael Keren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Atsuko Ueda,Michael K. Bourdaghs,Richi Sakakibara,Hirokazu Toeda
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739180778

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The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52 by Atsuko Ueda,Michael K. Bourdaghs,Richi Sakakibara,Hirokazu Toeda Pdf

In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of a number of important issues, including the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of “literature” and “politics,” and the origins of crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War. This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writings—many appearing in English for the first time—offer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the country’s literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.

Author : Matthew D. Dinan,Natalie Taylor,Denise Schaeffer,Paul E. Kirkland
Publisher : Politics, Literature, & Film
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Thomas N. Habinek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.