Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Politics of Literature by Jacques Ranciere - Picture 1 of 1

Politics of Literature by Jacques Rancière (2011, Trade Paperback)

One Planet Books (30293)

99.3% positive feedback

Price:

$10.01

Free shipping

Estimated delivery Tue, Oct 7 - Tue, Oct 14

Returns:

30 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

Good

Authors : Jacques Ranciere. Politics of Literature. Title : Politics of Literature. May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket.

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherPolity Press

ISBN-100745645313

ISBN-139780745645315

eBay Product ID (ePID)92439220

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NamePolitics of Literature

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

SubjectSemiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorJacques Rancière

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"By 'politics of literature' Rancière means the intervention of the new democratic literature of modernity in the parceling out of space and time. There is more than one democracy at stake here, and no one has tracked their competing claims and contradictory vocations more brilliantly than Rancière. Every page of this riveting work illuminates and challenges. This is Rancière at his scintillating best." J.M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal809

Table Of ContentOriginal Sources Hypotheses - The Politics of Literature - Literary Misunderstanding Figures - The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine - On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History - The Intruder: Mallarmé's Politics - The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht - Borges and French Disease Crossings - The Truth Through the Window: Literary Truth, Freudian Truth - The historian, literature and the genre of biography - The Poet at the philosopher's: Mallarmé and Badiou

SynopsisJacques Rancire is one of the leading philosophers in France today, well-known for his work on aesthetics, politics and the philosophy of literature. This book is a thoughtful and stimulating account of the relationship between literature and politics, in the style of great thinkers like Sartre., 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, Mallarm, Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical intepretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization., 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., 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, Mallarm , Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical interpretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization.

LC Classification NumberPN51