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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823291793
035 _a(DE-B1597)565968
035 _a(OCoLC)1306540573
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aArac, Jonathan
_eautore
245 1 0 _aImpure Worlds :
_bThe Institution of Literature in the Age of the Novel /
_cJonathan Arac.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (224 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tI. Politics and the Canon --
_t1. The Impact of Shakespeare: Goethe to Melville --
_t2. The Media of Sublimity: Johnson and Lamb on King Lear --
_t3. Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character --
_t4. The Struggle for the Cultural Heritage: Christina Stead Refunctions Charles Dickens and Mark Twain --
_t5. The Birth of Huck’s Nation --
_tII. Language and Reality in the Age of the Novel --
_t6. Narrative Form and Social Sense in Bleak House and The French Revolution --
_t7. Rhetoric and Realism: Hyperbole in The Mill on the Floss --
_t8. Rhetoric and Realism; or, Marxism, Deconstruction, and Madame Bovary --
_t9. Baudelaire’s Impure Transfers: Allegory, Translation, Prostitution, Correspondence --
_t10. Huckleberry Finn without Polemic --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis book records a major critic’s three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people’s lives—that is, politics. A preference for impurity and a search for how to analyze and explain it are guiding threads in this book as its chapters pursue the complex entanglements of culture, politics, and society from which great literature arises. At its core is the nineteenth-century novel, but it addresses a broader range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. The chapters stand out for a rare combination. They practice both an intensive close reading that does not demand unity as its goal and an attention to literature as a social institution, a source of values that are often created in its later reception rather than given at the outset. When addressing canonical writers—Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, Keats, Melville, George Eliot, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Ralph Ellison—the author never forgets that many of their texts, even Shakespeare’s plays, were in their own time judged to be popular, commercial, minor, or even trashy. In drawing on these works as resources in politically charged arguments about value, the author pays close attention to the processes of posterity that validated these authors’ greatness. Among those processes of posterity are the responses of other writers. In making their choices of style, subject, genre, and form, writers both draw from and differ from other writers of the past and of their own times. The critical thinking about other literature through which many great works construct their inventiveness reveals that criticism is not just a minor, secondary practice, segregated from the primary work of creativity. Participating in as well as analyzing that work of critical creativity, this volume is rich with important insights for all readers and teachers of literature.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291793
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823291793
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