Power and Literature
Strategies of Subversiveness in the Romanian Novel
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Die Buchreihe Mimesis präsentiert unter ihrem neuen Untertitel Romanische Literaturen der Welt ein innovatives und integrales Verständnis der Romania wie der Romanistik. Sie trägt der Tatsache Rechnung, dass die faszinierende Entwicklung der romanischen Literaturen und Kulturen in Europa wie außerhalb Europas weltweite Dynamiken in Gang gesetzt hat, welche die großen Traditionen der Romania auf neue Horizonte hin öffnen. Mimesis zeigt auf, wie die dargestellte Wirklichkeit im Archipel der romanischen Literaturen die Tür zu einem vielsprachigen Kosmos verschiedenartiger Logiken öffnet. Die Publikationssprachen sind Deutsch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch und Englisch.
At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.
At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History.
Florin Oprescu, Universität Wien, Österreich.
Florin Oprescu, University of Vienna, Austria.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Mimesis ; 71 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 532 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik | |
| Schlagworte | Bourdieu • discourse • Diskurs • Foucault • Macht • Novel • Power • Roman |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-060294-6 / 3110602946 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-060294-4 / 9783110602944 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Softcover (2020)
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