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Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics

Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics

Rancière, Jacques
Swenson, James
Rockhill, Gabriel

Paperback

Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, Book 19

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231151039
ISBN13: 9780231151030
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 15 2011
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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