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

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Synopsis
Jacques Rancière 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 Rancière'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. Rancière 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, Mallarmé, and Proust, Rancière demonstrates the uncontrollable democratic impulse lying at the heart of literature's still-vital capacity for reinvention.
Copyright:
2011

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
208 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780231528009
Related ISBNs:
9780231151023
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Columbia University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Introduction by:
Gabriel Rockhill
Translator:
James Swenson

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