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Power and Literature : Strategies of Subversiveness in the Romanian Novel / Florin Oprescu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mimesis : Romanische Literaturen der Welt ; 71Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (VI, 270 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110602944
  • 9783110603057
  • 9783110605372
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 859/.3009
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Argument -- 1. The Criticism of Ideas on Power -- 2. The Active Power of the Subject -- 3. The Reflexive Power of the Subject -- 4. The Passivity of the Subject faced with the Power of History -- 5. The Impersonalization of Power in Contemporary Novel -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Dissertation note: Habilitation Universität Wien 2017. Summary: 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.
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Habilitation Universität Wien 2017.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Argument -- 1. The Criticism of Ideas on Power -- 2. The Active Power of the Subject -- 3. The Reflexive Power of the Subject -- 4. The Passivity of the Subject faced with the Power of History -- 5. The Impersonalization of Power in Contemporary Novel -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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