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Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole; an understanding of thought as a process that operates between rather than within individuals; and a theory of infinite truth, something individuals only partially glimpse from their particular cultural situations. For Blake, God is the constellation of individual human beings, whose collective imagination produces revolutionary change. In Hugo's novel, Jean Valjean learns that the greatest truth about humanity lies in the sewer or among the lowest forms of social existence. For Joyce, Leopold and Molly Bloom are everybody and nobody, singular beings whose creative power and truth is beyond categories and social hierarchies.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Patrick McGee |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Release |
: 2016-09-08 |
File |
: 284 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781501320071 |
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This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Judith Paltin |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2020-12-03 |
File |
: 235 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108842235 |
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Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social questioning in novels of the period. To undo such readings means evolving a new praxis of critical writing. Rather than addressing the explicitly political and deeply limited accounts of the machinery of franchise and ballot in texts, it is important to create a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects. This can be done partly by taking a new look at some classic nineteenth-century political texts (Mill, De Tocqueville, Hegel), but centrally by exploring four claims: the novel is an open Inquiry (compare philosophical Inquiries of the Enlightenment contemporary with the novel's genesis), a lived interrogation, not a pre-formed political document; radical thinking requires radical formal experiment, creating generic and ideological disruption simultaneously and putting the so-called realist novel and its values under pressure; the poetics of social and phenomenological space reveals an analysis of the dispossessed subject, not the bildung of success or overcoming; the presence of the aesthetic and art works in the novel is a constant source of social questioning. Among texts discussed, six novels of illegitimacy, from Jane Austen to Scott to George Eliot and George Moore, stand out because illegitimacy, with its challenge to social norms, is a test case for the novelist, and a growing point of the democratic imagination.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Isobel Armstrong |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2016-12-22 |
File |
: 298 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192512444 |
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"Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole; an understanding of thought as a process that operates between rather than within individuals; and a theory of infinite truth, something individuals only partially glimpse from their particular cultural situations. For Blake, God is the constellation of individual human beings, whose collective imagination produces revolutionary change. In Hugo's novel, Jean Valjean learns that the greatest truth about humanity lies in the sewer or among the lowest forms of social existence. For Joyce, Leopold and Molly Bloom are everybody and nobody, singular beings whose creative power and truth is beyond categories and social hierarchies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Genre |
: Electronic books |
Author |
: Patrick McGee |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Academic |
Release |
: 2016 |
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: Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501320084 |
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: Yingkun Zhang |
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: |
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: 2005 |
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: 472 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89095503132 |
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: Russell L. Hanson |
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: |
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: 1982 |
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: 450 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951001041870N |
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Genre |
: Political Science |
Author |
: A. W. Wright |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Release |
: 1979 |
File |
: 324 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B4270108 |
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: Frederic Logan Paxson |
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: 1936 |
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: 464 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015003450676 |
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Genre |
: United States |
Author |
: Hugh J. Hastings |
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: |
Release |
: 1881 |
File |
: 166 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89073016206 |
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Genre |
: Catholics |
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: |
Release |
: 1999 |
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: 732 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89076717222 |