The Proletarian Moment

The Proletarian Moment
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0252017889
ISBN-13 : 9780252017889
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Proletarian Moment by : James Francis Murphy

The Proletarian Dream

The Proletarian Dream
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9783110550207
ISBN-13 : 3110550202
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Proletarian Dream by : Sabine Hake

The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on modern German culture and society. As the most radicalized part of the industrial working class, the proletariat embodied the critique of capitalism and the promise of socialism. But as a collective imaginary, the proletariat also inspired the fantasies, desires, and attachments necessary for transforming the working class into a historical subject and an emotional community. This book reconstructs this complicated and contradictory process through the countless treatises, essays, memoirs, novels, poems, songs, plays, paintings, photographs, and films produced in the name of the proletariat. The Proletarian Dream reads these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant—and even more important, how it felt—to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction. By emphasizing the formative role of the aesthetic, the eighteen case studies offer a new perspective on working-class culture as a oppositional culture. Such a new perspective is bound to shed new light on the politics of emotion during the main years of working-class mobilizations and as part of more recent populist movements and cultures of resentment. Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures 2018

The Gramscian Moment

The Gramscian Moment
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 505
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ISBN-10 : 9789004167711
ISBN-13 : 9004167714
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gramscian Moment by : Peter D. Thomas

Drawing on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies, this book offers a reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, arguing that a renewal of the 'philosophy of praxis' constitutes a necessary element in the contemporary revitalisation of Marxism.

Radical Representations

Radical Representations
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 0822313944
ISBN-13 : 9780822313946
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Representations by : Barbara Foley

In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of writers to the organized left. Her grasp of the left's positions on the "Negro question" and the "woman question" enables a nuanced analysis of the relation of class to race and gender in the proletarian novel. Moreover, examining the articulation of political doctrine in different novelistic modes, Foley develops a model for discussing the interplay between politics and literary conventions and genres. Radical Representations recovers a literature of theoretical and artistic value meriting renewed attention form those interested in American literature, American studies, the U. S. left, and cultural studies generally.

Manifesto

Manifesto
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Publisher : Ocean Press
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9780987228338
ISBN-13 : 0987228331
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Manifesto by : Ernesto Che Guevara

“If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’ you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.” — Adrienne Rich With a preface by Adrienne Rich, Manifesto presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Humanity.

A Companion to American Literature

A Companion to American Literature
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 1864
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ISBN-10 : 9781119653356
ISBN-13 : 1119653355
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to American Literature by : Susan Belasco

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

The Gramscian Moment

The Gramscian Moment
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 504
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ISBN-10 : 9789047443025
ISBN-13 : 9047443020
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Gramscian Moment by : Peter Thomas

Winner of the Premio internazionale Giuseppe Sormani 2011, awarded by the Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci in Turin for the best book/article on Gramsci in the period between 2007-2011 internationally. Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has been subjected, resulting in often contradictory 'images of Gramsci'. This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramsci's thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramsci's theory of the state and concept of philosophy, The 'Gramscian moment' argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of developing a 'philosophy of praxis' as a vital element in the contemporary revitalisation of Marxism.

The Novel, Volume 1

The Novel, Volume 1
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 926
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ISBN-10 : 9780691127187
ISBN-13 : 0691127182
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Novel, Volume 1 by : Franco Moretti

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The Struggle for a Proletarian Party

The Struggle for a Proletarian Party
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Publisher : Resistance Books
Total Pages : 60
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ISBN-10 : 1876646217
ISBN-13 : 9781876646219
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Struggle for a Proletarian Party by : James Patrick Cannon

Richard Wright

Richard Wright
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 9781476609126
ISBN-13 : 1476609128
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Richard Wright by : Keneth Kinnamon

African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.