ISBN: 9780231151030 - mute speech: literature, critical theory, and politics (new directions in critical theory, band 19) (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic "distributions of the sensible," which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of "literature" is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, "literature" is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention.…

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Zustand: New. 2011. Paperback. Translator(s): Swenson, James. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336. Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. 208 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; HPS. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 13. Weight: 340. Translator(s): Swenson, James. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic 'distributions of the sensible,' which configure the limits of what can be seen and said. Widely recognized as a seminal work in Ranciere's corpus, the translation of which is long overdue, Mute Speech is an intellectual tour de force proposing a new framework for thinking about the history of art and literature. Ranciere argues that our current notion of 'literature' is a relatively recent creation, having first appeared in the wake of the French Revolution and with the rise of Romanticism. In its rejection of the system of representational hierarchies that had constituted belles-letters, 'literature' is founded upon a radical equivalence in which all things are possible expressions of the life of a people. With an analysis reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, the German Romantics, Vico, and Cervantes and concluding with brilliant readings of Flaubert, Mallarme, and Proust, Ranciere demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention. …

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