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2009
Abstract This article considers the relationship between literature and politics. It focuses on the idea that literary form itself is political and investigates claims that literature can criticize and alter political belief by being experienced in terms of its form. It discusses the view of Theodor Adorno on this issue and suggests that
Fred Rush
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Abstract This article considers the relationship between literature and politics. It focuses on the idea that literary form itself is political and investigates claims that literature can criticize and alter political belief by being experienced in terms of its form. It discusses the view of Theodor Adorno on this issue and suggests that
Fred Rush
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News for Teachers of Political Science, 1983
The terms “politics” and “literature” are both “essentially-contestable“ concepts. “Politics” can mean political practice, political ideas or the study of politics; “literature” can mean the writing of books, the content of those books or the reading of them.
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The terms “politics” and “literature” are both “essentially-contestable“ concepts. “Politics” can mean political practice, political ideas or the study of politics; “literature” can mean the writing of books, the content of those books or the reading of them.
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2018
My argument in this chapter is that fiction enlightens us about political reality. In a world in which millions are fed misinformation on social media, and media-savvy politicians turn into demigods, I claim, literature, at least some of it, serves as a reminder of the real, the true, and the factual.
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My argument in this chapter is that fiction enlightens us about political reality. In a world in which millions are fed misinformation on social media, and media-savvy politicians turn into demigods, I claim, literature, at least some of it, serves as a reminder of the real, the true, and the factual.
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Introduction: The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics
2013Literature students tend not to perceive English Literature as a particularly political subject to study, nor are most English departments seen as centres of political debate. Francis Mulhern, in his 1979 study of F.R. Leavis’s journal Scrutiny, has suggested that: ‘Literary criticism as it is mainly practiced in England is in reality the focal ...
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SubStance, 2004
Original Sources Hypotheses - The Politics of Literature - Literary Misunderstanding Figures - The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine - On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History - The Intruder: Mallarme's Politics - The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht - Borges and French Disease Crossings - The Truth Through the ...
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Original Sources Hypotheses - The Politics of Literature - Literary Misunderstanding Figures - The Putting to Death of Emma Bovary: Literature, Democracy and Medicine - On the Battlefield: Tolstoy, Literature, History - The Intruder: Mallarme's Politics - The Gay Science of Bertolt Brecht - Borges and French Disease Crossings - The Truth Through the ...
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Political Research, Organization and Design, 1960
Political scientists hold no monopoly on the examination of government and political processes; many novelists and playwrights have dealt directly or indirectly with the same subjects, and the study of their works may provide political science with both new insights and new analytical methods.
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Political scientists hold no monopoly on the examination of government and political processes; many novelists and playwrights have dealt directly or indirectly with the same subjects, and the study of their works may provide political science with both new insights and new analytical methods.
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1983
Since Fitzjames Stephen identified the reconciliation of democracy with culture as the principal task of his age, he sought to combat what he regarded as a serious obstacle to its fulfilment. Early in the nineteenth century the English writer was liberated from the restraints of aristocratic patronage only to find himself subject to a new master ...
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Since Fitzjames Stephen identified the reconciliation of democracy with culture as the principal task of his age, he sought to combat what he regarded as a serious obstacle to its fulfilment. Early in the nineteenth century the English writer was liberated from the restraints of aristocratic patronage only to find himself subject to a new master ...
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Teaching Literature Politically
Where politics is concerned, a certain doubt hangs over the otherwise seemingly self-evident proposition that teachers know things that students do not know and would benefit from learning. The teacher’s authority becomes questionable. This essay uses several pedagogical examples in order to make the case for exercising and, in parlous times, defendingopenaire +1 more source
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1970
As teachers of literature we find ourselves involved with and compromised by the contemporary world. The events of the December 1968 Modern Language Association meeting made our dilemma painfully clear. The dissidents of the MLA have shaken the organization out of its lethargy.
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As teachers of literature we find ourselves involved with and compromised by the contemporary world. The events of the December 1968 Modern Language Association meeting made our dilemma painfully clear. The dissidents of the MLA have shaken the organization out of its lethargy.
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