Writing Revolution Representation Rhetoric And Revolutionary Politics

Author : Sheila Delany
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004684093
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Revolution: Representation, Rhetoric, and Revolutionary Politics written by Sheila Delany and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary and writer: how do they fit together in one person’s work? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines the synergy of politics and rhetoric, art and social commitment. The writers she considers gave voice to the hopes of their time. Some led the events in person as well as through their writing; others worked to build a movement. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao, Sylvain Maréchal, Boris Lavrenov, Bertolt Brecht and others are here: consummate rhetoricians all, not necessarily on the same page politically but for the revolutions of their day.

Author : Ann Rigney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530682
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Historical Representation written by Ann Rigney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role which narrative discourse plays in the writing of history is an area of increasing interest to historians and literary theorists, resulting in some of the most stimulating and controversial historiographical work in recent years. The rhetoric of historical representation represents one of the first attempts to carry out a sustained textual analysis of historiographical practice. Ann Rigney focusses on three celebrated nineteenth-century histories of the French Revolution, written by Alphonse de Lamartine, Jules Michelet and Louis Blanc. What distinguishes her account is the sensitivity and sophistication with which she handles the semiotic issues each text raises. She shows how a greater understanding of the specific features of historical narration can be achieved through a comparative analysis of the different representations of a common event. This fresh new perspective on a long-standing historiographical debate brings into relief the ways in which the narrative medium can be used to invest events with one significance rather than another.

Author : Kelvin Everest
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution in Writing written by Kelvin Everest and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays originally generated by the academic conferences and events organized throughout Britain in 1989 to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution investigate the British literary responses to the monumental upheaval, and examine as well certain critical problems regarding the relationship between texts, history, and theory. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Edward Larkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139445987
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution written by Edward Larkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the impact of works such as Common Sense and The Rights of Man has led historians to study Thomas Paine's role in the American Revolution and political scientists to evaluate his contributions to political theory, scholars have tacitly agreed not to treat him as a literary figure. This book not only redresses this omission, but also demonstrates that Paine's literary sensibility is particularly evident in the very texts that confirmed his importance as a theorist. And yet, because of this association with the 'masses', Paine is often dismissed as a mere propagandist. Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution recovers Paine as a transatlantic popular intellectual who would translate the major political theories of the eighteenth century into a language that was accessible and appealing to ordinary citizens on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Caroline Weber
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452905541
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terror and Its Discontents written by Caroline Weber and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of thought and language, is the subject of Caroline Weber's book, a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Weber examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and the Robespierrists' articulation of a series of initiatives designed to curtail and control the dissemination of alternative political and philosophical messages in the republic. Here Weber underscores the internal contradictions and limitations of an enterprise that promised universal freedom while oppressing particularism, and that railed against the very language that it was compelled to adopt as a principal political tool. The book then focuses on two eloquent contemporary critics of this phenomenon, Desmoulins and the Marquis de Sade, the infamous libertine author. Weber demonstrates how Desmoulins reconfigured the Montagnard regime's rhetoric to conjure up a political system based on tolerance, not terror, and how Sade deftly parodied the Robespierrists' brutality and hypocrisy, proposing a republic based on the ruthless elimination of dissident voices and on the unabashed celebration of despotism and bloodshed. A balanced account of how the "discourse of totality" actually restricted particular freedoms in the wake of theFrench Revolution, this book provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power.

Author : Stephanie Mathilde Hilger
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025786
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Write Back written by Stephanie Mathilde Hilger and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire's Mahomet, Johnson's Rasselas, Goethe's Werther, and Rousseau's Julie. The analysis of these women's texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.

Author : Ilan Rachum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Revolution" written by Ilan Rachum and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are scores of books on the theme of revolution, Ilan Rachum's study is unique in its analysis from the perspective of political discourse. It examines how the term 'revolution' entered Western political vocabulary through a historical survey covering the early Renaissance to the French Revolution. Antecedents of the term 'revolution' originated in Italy, from where they spread with modifications to France and finally England. Rachum also examines the use and significance of the term during the Enlightenment, the emergence of the epithet 'American Revolution', and the rebounding effects of this term on French intellectuals on the eve of 1789. This fascinating study will excite historians, political scientists, and anyone with an interest in the history of ideas that have had a lasting impact on how we perceive and describe social change.

Author : William H. Sewell (Jr.)
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315384
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution written by William H. Sewell (Jr.) and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers--educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought--and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.

Author : Thomas E. Hachey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780030891731
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Revolution: Rebels and Rhetoric written by Thomas E. Hachey and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Gustafson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521395120
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representative Words written by Thomas Gustafson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.