The Poetics of Sovereignty

The Poetics of Sovereignty
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : 0674056086
ISBN-13 : 9780674056084
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Sovereignty by : Jack Wei Chen

Emperor Taizong (r. 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong's construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings--with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the relationship between historiography and the literary and rhetorical strategies of sovereignty, contending that, for Taizong, and for the concept of sovereignty in general, politics is inextricable from cultural production. The work focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. The author maintains that Taizong's writings may have been self-serving at times, representing strategic attempts to control his self-image in the eyes of his court and empire, but that they also become the ideal image to which his self was normatively bound. This is the paradox at the heart of imperial authorship: Taizong was simultaneously the author of his representation and was authored by his representation; he was both subject and object of his writings.

The Poetics of Sovereignty

The Poetics of Sovereignty
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9781684170555
ISBN-13 : 1684170559
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Sovereignty by : Jack W. Chen

Emperor Taizong (r. 626–49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong’s construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings—with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the relationship between historiography and the literary and rhetorical strategies of sovereignty, contending that, for Taizong, and for the concept of sovereignty in general, politics is inextricable from cultural production. The work focuses on Taizong’s literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. The author maintains that Taizong’s writings may have been self-serving at times, representing strategic attempts to control his self-image in the eyes of his court and empire, but that they also become the ideal image to which his self was normatively bound. This is the paradox at the heart of imperial authorship: Taizong was simultaneously the author of his representation and was authored by his representation; he was both subject and object of his writings.

The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910

The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781107028067
ISBN-13 : 110702806X
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910 by : Andrew Hebard

The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.

The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910

The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781139851879
ISBN-13 : 113985187X
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885–1910 by : Andrew Hebard

During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a 'state of exception' in American jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the Western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States.

Sovereignties in Question

Sovereignties in Question
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9780823224371
ISBN-13 : 0823224376
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Sovereignties in Question by : Jacques Derrida

This book brings together five encounters. They include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; structures of futurity and the "to come"; language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony and promising; the possibility of the impossible; and the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge.

Forms of Empire

Forms of Empire
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780198792451
ISBN-13 : 019879245X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Forms of Empire by : Nathan K. Hensley

In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era's most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Denying Imperial Bodies

Denying Imperial Bodies
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 437
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:494168739
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Denying Imperial Bodies by : Jack Wei Chen

Sovereignty and Sustainability

Sovereignty and Sustainability
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781496219947
ISBN-13 : 1496219945
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Sovereignty and Sustainability by : Siobhan Senier

Sovereignty and Sustainability examines how Native American authors in what is now called New England have maintained their own long and complex literary histories, often entirely outside of mainstream archives, libraries, publishing houses, and other institutions usually associated with literary canon-building. Indigenous people in the Northeast began writing in English almost immediately after the arrival of colonial settlers, and they have continued to write in almost every form—histories, newsletters, novels, poetry, and electronic media. Over the centuries, Native American authors have used literature to assert tribal self-determination and protect traditional homelands and territories. Drawing on the fields of Native American and Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, and literary history, Siobhan Senier argues that sustainability cannot be thought of apart from Indigenous sovereignty and that tribal sovereignty depends on environmental and cultural sustainability. Senier offers the framework of literary stewardship to show how works of Indigenous literature maintain, recirculate, and adapt tribally specific approaches to community, land, and relations. Individual chapters discuss Wampanoag historiography; tribal newsletters and periodicals; novelists and poets Joseph Bruchac, John Christian Hopkins, Cheryl Savageau, and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel; and tribal literature on the web and in electronic archives. Pushing against the idea that Indians have vanished or are irrelevant today, Senier demonstrates to the contrary that regional Native literature is flourishing and looks to a dynamic future.

The Poetics of Digital Media

The Poetics of Digital Media
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781509532681
ISBN-13 : 1509532684
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetics of Digital Media by : Paul Frosh

Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence. The Poetics of Digital Media explores the poetic work of media in digital culture. Developing an argument through close readings of overlooked or denigrated media objects – screenshots, tagging, selfies and more – the book reveals how media shape the taken-for-granted structures of our lives, and how they disclose our world through sudden moments of visibility and tangibility. Bringing us face to face with the conditions of our existence, it investigates how the ‘given’ world we inhabit is given through media. This book is important reading for students and scholars of media theory, philosophy of media, visual culture and media aesthetics.

Everyday States

Everyday States
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:62284492
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Everyday States by : Andrew Hebard