The lost thread : the democracy of modern fiction / by Jacques Rancière ; translated by Steven Corcoran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rancière, Jacques, author.

Standardized Title:

Fil perdu. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 156 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

In The Lost Thread, giant of French philosophy Jacques Rancière continues his project of outlining an egalitarian 'distribution of the sensible' as the compelling linkage between politics and aesthetics in the modern age. In this work Ranciere foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical rethinking of our received ideas regarding the politics of aesthetics in the modern era. Book jacket.

Contents:

The lost thread of the novel

Madam Aubain's barameter

Marlow's lie

The death of Prue Ramsay

The republic of the poets

Spider's work

The infinite taste of the republic

The theatre of thoughts.

Notes:

"First published in French as Le Fil perdu. Essais sur la fiction moderne, Paris, La Fabrique Éditions, ©Jacques Rancière 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rancière, Jacques, author. Lost thread

ISBN:

9781472596017

1472596013

9781350025684

1350025682

OCLC:

972337615