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The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change » Read Now
by Michael Hanne. 262 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...POWER The political "impact" of fiction C an a novel start a war, free...loosely of the political impact of a novel, that metaphor...episodes in the novel as satirical...
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Literature and the Political Imagination » Read Now
by Andrea T. Baumeister, John Horton. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are...
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This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and diverse ways in which literature may enrich political theorising, as well as considering some of the problems to which this may give rise. The theorists discussed include Richard Rorty, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Martha Nussbaum. There are literary references from Greek tradegy, Jonathan Swift, Brian Moore, Elizabeth Bowen and contemporary feminist utopian fiction. All the contributors have a long-standing interest in the relations between literature and moral and political thought. They are concerned not to be restricted by conventional academic boundaries and are not united by any party-line or uniformity of intellectual commitments. This volume will be of great interest to all students engaged in the study of politics and literature.
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Political Mythology and Popular Fiction » Read Now
by Lee Sigelman, Ernest J. Yanarella. 200 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Acknowledgments Introduction: Political Myth, Popular Fiction, and American Culture by Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman Nature, Human Nature, and Society in the American Western by John Moeller Democracy and Community in American Children's Literature by Timothy E. Cook Winning Isn't Everything:...
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Political Myth, Popular Fiction, and American Culture by Ernest J. Yanarella and Lee Sigelman Nature, Human Nature, and Society in the American Western by John Moeller Democracy and Community in American Children's Literature by Timothy E. Cook Winning Isn't Everything: Sports Fiction as a Genre of Political Criticism by Thomas C. Shevory Political Change in America: Perspectives from Popular Historical Novels of Michener and Vidal by Samuel M. Hines Jr. Natural Law and Right in Contemporary American Middle-Class Literature by Ethan Fishman "Our Town" Reconsidered: Reflections on the Small Town in American Literature by Jean Bethke Elshtain The Paradox of Combat: Fictional Reflections of America at War by Cecil L. Eubanks The Machine in the Garden Revisited: American Pastorialism and Contemporary Science Fiction by Ernest J. Yanarella A Select Bibliography on Myth, Politics, and Popular Fiction
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Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945 » Read Now
by Robert Boyers. 259 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand...
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Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand these works. A penetrating study, Atrocity and Amnesia illuminates some of the major fiction of our time and makes an important contribution to contemporary political thought.
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Politics and the Novel » Read Now
by Irving Howe. 252 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...acknowledged. The chapter on The Political Novel in America includes part of...1. The Idea of the Political Novel 15 2. Stendhal...conceivably be treated as a "political...
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The Dictator's Dictation: The Politics of Novels and Novelists » Read Now
by Robert Boyers. 224 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Political Novel: Its Development in England and in America » Read Now
by Morris Edmund Speare. 380 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Grant, P.R.A. at Hughenden THE POLITICAL NOVEL ITS DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLAND...VICTORIAN REALIST IN THE POLITICAL NOVEL 185 VIII. GEORGE...268 XII. THE PIONEER AMERICAN...
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The Politics of the Feminist Novel » Read Now
by Judi M. Roller. 208 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Critical Literature on the Political Novel 189 Bibliography...bind it together as a type of political novel. As one critic states, "feminist...Adams Democracy is not a...
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Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America » Read Now
by Maria Lauret. 242 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the...
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Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices. Lauret's historicisation of feminist political writing allows for a new definition of the genre, and enables her to illuminate the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing. Well-grounded historically and theoretically, Liberating Literature speaks about and to a political and cultural tradition, and offers stunning new readings of both familiar and neglected novels within the feminist canon. Reader and students of feminist fiction cannot afford to be without this major new work.
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Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel » Read Now
by Nancy Armstrong. 310 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic...
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Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of institutions which today are accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their writing to replace prevailing notions of "identity" with a gender-determined subjectivity. She also examines the works of such novelists as Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Brontes to reveal the ways in which these authors rewrite the domestic practices and sexual relations of the past to create the historical context through which modern institutional power would seem not only natural but also humane, and therefore to be desired.
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Novel Possibilities: Fiction and the Formation of Early Victorian Culture » Read Now
by Joseph W. Childers. 222 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Places: Novelistic Politics and a Political Novel 1. Politics and Interpretive...Novelistic Politics and a Political Novel."Chapter 1 in that segment is...being arguably...
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The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain: Reading Politics as Paradox » Read Now
by Barbara J. Eckstein. 214 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 , Robert Boyers admires the political novel but expresses disdain for...actions of nation-states and the political...
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In My Opinion: An Inquiry into the Contemporary Novel » Read Now
by Orville Prescott. 262 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...16 2. The Political Novel: Warren, Orwell, Koestler...their story die." II : THE POLITICAL NOVEL Warren, Orwell, Koestler...these lessons so well that the political novel...