Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics: 19 (New Directions in Critical Theory) - Softcover

Rancière, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231151039 ISBN 13: 9780231151030

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2011

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Críticas:

Ranciere is refreshingly unorthdox in unearthing examples of 'mute speech' not from modernism, but from relatively prosaic realist and naturalist novels. Times Literary Supplement Although the text does not lend itself to quick, light-hearted reading, it does reward thoughtful consideration. The tensions, paradoxes, and contradictions that characterize poetics and aesthetics are given space to move in this text -- Jerilyn Sambrooke Church and Postmodern Culture An excellent English translation of Jacques Ranciere's study of literary style... -- Edmund Campion The European Legacy Ranciere offers us fresh ways to understand how we got from a system of poetics that organized a number of particular arts, to an aesthetic regime in which it is now possible to speak of art in the singular. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies One welcomes [an] ambitious, iconoclastic work like Gabriel Rockhill's Mute Speech Radical History, Radical Philosophy

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0231151039
• ISBN 13: 9780231151030
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208