Rancir̈e and Literature.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rancière, Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Rancière, Jacques.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2016.

Summary:

With the increasingly rapid translation of Rancière's writing into English, the question of what this philosopher has to offer to the study of literature has become pressing. This collection of 12 original essays both engages with Rancière's accounts of literature from across his body of work and puts his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of literary criticism. From his archival investigations of the literary efforts of nineteenth-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice, this book seeks to unearth, to consolidate, to evaluate and to critique this influential thinker's work on and with literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Coordinates

1 Fictions of Time / Jacques Rancière Rancière, Jacques 25

2 Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and Translation / Eric Méchoulan Méchoulan, Eric 42

3 Rancière and Tragedy / Oliver Feltham Feltham, Oliver 58

4 Ranciere Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics / Justin Clemens Clemens, Justin 76

5 'A New Mode of the Existence of Truth': Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780-1830 / Andrew Gibson Gibson, Andrew 99

Section II Realisms

6 The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character Dynamics / Elaine Freedgood Freedgood, Elaine 125

7 'Broiled in Hell-fire': Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of Literarity / Grace Hellyer Hellyer, Grace 143

8 Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be Killed / Emily Steinlight Steinlight, Emily 164

9 The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter Benjamin / Alison Ross Ross, Alison 183

Section III Contemporaneities

10 Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in Ulysses / Julian Murphet Murphet, Julian 207

11 The Politics of Realism in Rancière and Houellebecq / Arne De Boever Boever, Arne De 226

12 Literature, Politics and Action / Bert Olivier Olivier, Bert 249.

ISBN:

9781474402576

1474402577

OCLC:

933274026