Against Democracyliterary Experience In The Era Of Emancipations

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823242544
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Democracy:Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations written by Simon During and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow.

Author : Simon During
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823246632
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Democracy written by Simon During and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental: It extends deeper and deeper into everyday life; it grounds and limits our political thought and values. That is the sense in which we do indeed live at history's end. But this end is not a happy one, because the system that we now have does not satisfy tests that we can legitimately put to it. In this situation, it is important to come to new terms with the fact that literature, at least until about 1945, was predominantly hostile to political democracy. Literature's deep-seated conservative, counterdemocratic tendencies, along with its capacity to make important distinctions among political, cultural, and experiential democracies and its capacity to uncover hidden, nonpolitical democracies in everyday life, is now a resource not just for cultural conservatives but for all those who take a critical attitude toward the current political, cultural, and economic structures. Literature, and certain novelists in particular, helps us not so much to imagine social possibilities beyond democracy as to understand how life might be lived both in and outside democratic state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and the techniques of close reading, Against Democracy offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing democracy, of literary criticism's contribution to that ethos, and of the history of conservatism, as well as innovative interpretations of a range of writers, including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, and Saul Bellow."--Project Muse.

Author : Nancy Armstrong
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249763
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing written by Nancy Armstrong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226923525
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bleak Liberalism written by Amanda Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno -- Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857918
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book J. M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture written by Andrew Gibson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents J. M. Coetzee's work as a complex, nuanced counterblast to contemporary, global, neoliberal economics and its societies. Not surprisingly, given his many years in South Africa and Australia, Coetzee writes from a `global-Southern' perspective. Drawing on a wealth ofliterature, philosophy, and theory, this book reads Coetzee's writings as a discreet, oblique but devastating engagement with neoliberal presumptions.It identifies and focuses on various key features of neoliberal culture: its obsession with self-enrichment, mastery, growth; its belief in plenitude, endless resources; its hubris and obsession with (self)-promotion; its desire for ease and easiness, `well-being', euphoria; its fetishization ofmanagerial reason and the culture of security; its unrelenting positivity, its belief in illusory goods and trivial progressivisms. By contrast, Coetzee's writings explore the virtues of irony and self-reduction. He commits himself to difficulty, discomfort, patient and austere, if bleak, inquiry,rigorous questioning, and radical doubt. Destitution and failure come to look like a serious, dignified form of life and thought. The very tones of Coetzee's books run counter to those of our neoliberal democracies. They point in a different direction to an age that has gone astray.

Author : Alex Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192673963
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decadent Conservatism written by Alex Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exploration of sexuality, dissipation, and depravity at odds with the literary and social establishment. Yet this counter-cultural narrative has obscured the often reactionary and elitist tendencies of Decadent writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Decadent Conservatism offers the first in-depth examination of the intersection of Decadence and conservatism, arguing that underpinning both was the desire to find alternatives to liberal modernity. Both Decadents and conservatives turned to the past to uncover values and models of social organisation that could offer stability in a chaotic world. From well-known figures such as Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, through to the forgotten editors of short-lived periodicals, important female aesthetes such as Michael Field, and politicians such as Arthur Balfour, Decadent Conservatism challenges conventional understandings of the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and the past in late-Victorian Britain. Through a series of thematic chapters exploring the alternative communities created by little magazines, the politics of Individualism, investments in monarchy and religion, Folk Decadence, and jingoistic and nationalist responses to the Second Anglo-Boer war, this study offers a new, and much messier, picture of fin-de-siècle literary politics. It will be of interest to those working on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as social, political, and cultural history of the period 1880-1920.

Author : Matthew Scully
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531507085
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Anarchy written by Matthew Scully and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy Democratic Anarchy grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion. Yet in Democratic Anarchy, Matthew Scully asks, how can “the people” be represented in a way that acknowledges what remains unrepresentable? What would it mean to face up to the constitutive exclusions that haunt U.S. democracy and its anxious fantasies of equality? Synthesizing a broad range of theoretical traditions and interlocutors—including Lacan, Rancière, Edelman, and Hartman—Democratic Anarchy polemically declares that there has never been, nor can there ever be, a realized democracy in the U.S. because democracy always depends on the hierarchical institution of a formal order by one part of the population over another. Engaging with an expansive corpus of American literature and art (Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nari Ward, Ocean Vuong, and Safiya Sinclair), Democratic Anarchy argues that many liberal concepts and institutions are in fact structurally opposed to democratic equality because they depend on regulating what can appear and in what form. By focusing on works that disrupt this regulatory impulse, Scully shows how rhetorical strategies of interruption, excess, and disorder figure the anarchic equality that inegalitarian fantasies of democracy disavow. Democratic Anarchy develops a rigorous theory of equality that refuses to repeat the inequalities against which it positions itself, and it does so by turning to moments of resistance—both aesthetic and political—inaugurated by the equality that inheres in and antagonizes the order of things.

Author : Héctor Jaimes
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1945234857
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mario Bellatin y las formas de la escritura written by Héctor Jaimes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro reune la colaboracion de tres importantes escritores, asi como la de dieciseis destacados investigadores, en torno a la obra del escritor mexicano Mario Bellatin. Con un abordaje critico variado y multidisciplinario, cada seccion del libro resalta los distintos ejes tematicos que surgen de la misma obra de este escritor; a saber: la transliteratura, la filosofia, el cuerpo, el humor, el genero y la estetica. Ademas, el libro cuenta con un texto inedito de Mario Bellatin. En suma, se trata de un aporte critico importante sobre la obra de uno de los escritores contemporaneos mas sui generis del momento.

Author : Marina Mackay
Publisher : Oxford Mid-Century Studies
ISBN 13 : 0198824998
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ian Watt written by Marina Mackay and published by Oxford Mid-Century Studies. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions were improvised under the starkest of emergency conditions. Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic argues that many of our foundational stories about the novelabout the novel's origins and development, and about the social, moral, and psychological work that the novel accomplishescan be traced to the crises of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Author : Christian Moraru
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501358979
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory in the "Post" Era written by Christian Moraru and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.