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The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction

The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction

Rancière, Jacques
Corcoran, Steven

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1472596013
ISBN13: 9781472596017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Dec 15 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead 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.

Through a complex and original stitching together of form and content, modernists strove to depict by embodying new forms and regimes of material and everyday life. Rancière articulates this substantial change in the politics of representation by explaining the shattering of the sacrosanct hierarchies of the genres and life-forms of classical literature. In the midst of the 19th century, poets, novelists and playwrights challenged the narrative staples of noble means and moral ends, and introduced an entirely new structure of feeling. In this work, Ranciere continues his project of outlining an egalitarian distribution of the sensible as the compelling linkage between politics and aesthetics in the modern age. The Lost Thread not only advances Rancière's commended work on aesthetics, it also offers the reader in depth analyses of the writers in question.

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