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Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel

Author : Adrian Wisnicki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135915261
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel written by Adrian Wisnicki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces classic Victorian works like Bleak House, Great Expectations, Villette, and The Moonstone, as well as later Victorian and Edwardian novels by James, Conrad, and Chesterton, and early spy thrillers such as The Riddle of the Sands and The Thirty-Nine Steps. In reading these works as instances of a single literary tradition, the conspiracy narrative tradition, the author traces how the representation of conspiracy changes in nineteenth-century British literature and argues that many of these changes occur in response to significant Victorian-era developments, such as the European revolutions of 1848-49, the rise of British law enforcement agencies, the growth of Irish Fenian terrorism, and the fin-de-siècle waning of the British Empire. The book also explores the roles that conspiratorial indeterminacy and irony play in shaping the Victorian conspiracy narrative tradition and examines how modern works by Proust, Kafka, and Pynchon appropriate elements from Victorian conspiracy narratives. Finally, in using recent work on affect theory as well as studies of paranoia by Freud, Shapiro, and Meissner, the book traces how Victorian works fashion the paranoid subject, a discursive process that ultimately leads to the emergence of the modern fictional conspiracy theorist.

Literature and Revolution

Author : Owen Holland
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 197882193X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Revolution written by Owen Holland and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

Author : Laurel Plapp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415957184
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature by : Laurel Plapp

Download or read book Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature written by Laurel Plapp and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish people to be complicit with orientalism because of the Zionist movement. However, the Jews of Europe have themselves been caught between East and West —both marginalized as the "Orientals" of Europe and connected to the Middle East through their own political and cultural ties. As a result, European-Jewish writers have had to negotiate the problematic confluence of antisemitic and orientalist discourse. Laurel Plapp traces this trend in utopic visions of Jewish-Muslim relations that criticized the early Zionist movement; in post-Holocaust depictions of coalition between Jews and African slaves in the Caribbean revolutions; and finally, in explorations of diasporic, transnational Jewish identity after the founding of Israel. Above all, Plapp proposes that Jewish studies and postcolonial studies have much in common by identifying ways in which Jewish writers have allied themselves with colonized and exilic peoples throughout the world.

Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction

Author : Leila Silvana May
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317058410
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction written by Leila Silvana May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered? These are some of the questions Leila May poses in her study of the dynamics of secrecy and disclosure in fiction from Queen Victoria's coronation to the century's end. May argues that the works of writers such as Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Arthur Conan Doyle reflect a distinctly Victorian obsession with the veiling and unveiling of information. She argues that there are two opposing vectors in Victorian culture concerning secrecy and subjectivity, one presupposing a form of radical Cartesian selfhood always remaining a secret to other selves and another showing that nothing can be hidden from the trained eye. (May calls the relation between these clashing tendencies the "dialectics" of secrecy and disclosure.) May's theories of secrecy and disclosure are informed by the work of twentieth-century social scientists. She emphasizes Georg Simmel's thesis that sociality and subjectivity are impossible without secrecy and Erving Goffman's claim that sociality can be understood in terms of performativity, "the presentation of the self in everyday life," and his revelation that performance always involves disguise, hence secrecy. May's study offers convincing evidence that secrecy and duplicity, in contrast to the Victorian period's emphasis on honesty and earnestness, emerged in response to the social pressures of class, gender, monarchy, and empire, and were key factors in producing both the subjectivity and the sociality that we now recognize as Victorian.

Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories

Author : Michael Butter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429840586
Total Pages : 1043 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories written by Michael Butter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon to date. It analyses conspiracy theories from a variety of perspectives, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. It maps out the key debates, and includes chapters on the historical origins of conspiracy theories, as well as their political significance in a broad range of countries and regions. Other chapters consider the psychology and the sociology of conspiracy beliefs, in addition to their changing cultural forms, functions and modes of transmission. This handbook examines where conspiracy theories come from, who believes in them and what their consequences are. This book presents an important resource for students and scholars from a range of disciplines interested in the societal and political impact of conspiracy theories, including Area Studies, Anthropology, History, Media and Cultural Studies, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East

Author : Michael Butter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110338270
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East written by Michael Butter and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

Literature and Development in North Africa

Author : Perri Giovannucci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135904987
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Development in North Africa written by Perri Giovannucci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local society but rather to instability, poverty, debt, and repression. "Modernization" may therefore be seen as the catalyst of anti-Western reaction. The record of exploitative "development" is traceable in the anti-colonial works of Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as in the fiction and memoirs of several North African authors, including Albert Camus, Naguib Mahfouz, Nawal El Saadawi, Assia Djebar, and Edward Said, who address decolonization in the middle twentieth century. The critical regard of development provides better understanding of the independence movements in North Africa. Further, one may look to the colonial past for perspective upon global development today. One sees similar practices and rhetoric are now invoked under "globalization." This recognition is key to understanding today’s so-called "war on terror." The understanding of things "postcolonial" is therefore critical for Americans today. Grounded in literature in English translation, this work has relevance for cultural studies in the Middle East, Africa, globalization, postcolonialism, and women’s studies.

Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel

Author : Renée Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603522
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel written by Renée Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. Dickinson proposes that the ways Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Spleen and Fugue by Olive Moore reflect, expose and criticize physical, geographical and national bodies in the narrative and form of their texts reveal the authors’ attempts to try on new forms and experiment with new possibilities of female embodiment and subjectivity.

Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction

Author : Peter Schneck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441113738
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction written by Peter Schneck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

Author : Cara Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135905894
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East written by Cara Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had more to gain than any other in the construction of a direct route to India would have played a role in its making. Yet the British shied away from any participation in the international project—only to swoop down on the finished project and claim it as their own when they purchased it in 1875, an event which led directly to Egypt’s colonization in 1882. Murray uncovers the little-known story of Britain’s swing from ambivalence about to acceptance of what would become a potent symbol of Western imperialism. Beginning with the railway mania of the 1840s and concluding with the opening of the new global routes of the 1870s, Murray argues that changes in notions about character, investment, and technology propagated in the novel form over this period enabled Britain to lay claim to the globe. Arguing that literary genre was itself a technology that spread imperialism, Murray shows how roads, canals, and novels together colonized the Middle East.

Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature

Author : Didem Havlioğlu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000842339
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature written by Didem Havlioğlu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Turkish literature within both a local and global context. Across eight thematic sections a collection of subject experts use close readings of literature materials to provide a critical survey of the main issues and topics within the literature. The chapters provide analysis on a wide range of genres and text types, including novels, poetry, religious texts, and drama, with works studied ranging from the fourteenth century right up to the present day. Using such a historic scope allows the volume to be read across cultures and time, while simultaneously contextualizing and investigating how modern Turkish literature interacts with world literature, and finds its place within it. Collectively, the authors challenge the national literary historiography by replacing the Ottoman Turkish literature in the Anatolian civilizations with its plurality of cultures. They also seek to overcome the institutional and theoretical shortcomings within current study of such works, suggesting new approaches and methods for the study of Turkish literature. The Routledge Handbook on Turkish Literature marks a new departure in the reading and studying of Turkish literature. It will be a vital resource for those studying literature, Middle East studies, Turkish and Ottoman history, social sciences, and political science.

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

Author : Stephen M. Levin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135915970
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel written by Stephen M. Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture.

Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts

Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408931
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference.

The Victorian Novel in Context

Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441124136
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Novel in Context written by Grace Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Victorian Novel in Context examines the changing readership resulting from the growth of mass literacy and the effect that this had on the form of the novel. Taking texts from the early, mid and late Victorian period it encourages students to consider how serialization shaped the nineteenth-century novel. It highlights the importance of politics, religion and the evolutionary debate in 'classic' Victorian texts. Addressing key concerns including realist writing, literature and imperialism, urbanization and women's writing, it introduces students to a variety of the most important critical approaches to the novels. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying the Victorian novel.

Counterfeit Politics

Author : David Kelman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611484154
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Counterfeit Politics written by David Kelman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory.

Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction

Author : Alan Burton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442255870
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction written by Alan Burton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and achievements of the British espionage story in literature, cinema and television. It provides detailed yet accessible information on numerous individual authors, novels, films, filmmakers, television dramas and significant themes within the broader field of the British spy story. It contains a wealth of facts, insights and perspectives, and represents the best single source for the study and appreciation of British spy fiction. British spy fiction is widely regarded as the most significant and accomplished in the world and this book is the first attempt to bring together an informed survey of the achievements in the British spy story in literature, cinema and television. The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about British spy fiction.

R|EVOLUTIONS

Author : Jennifer Craig
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807923
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book R|EVOLUTIONS written by Jennifer Craig and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can art change the world? Or can art produce new knowledge that facilitates radical change in our slowly-evolving communities? If so, then we must ask: How does cultural transformation, whether super or slight, affect our understanding of culture and the world? Operating under the rubric of resistance and reform, R|EVOLUTIONS: Mapping Culture, Community and Change is a unique scholarly collection that seeks to illuminate current understandings of art, aesthetics, and the revolutionary impulse. The resulting work interrogates intersections between culture and community, revolution and evolution. At the same time, it examines how enduring social issues intertwine with current concerns, such as representations of the body or the book. Multidisciplinary in approach, topics run from subversive uses of the body in Renaissance drama to the effect of the atom bomb on postmodern culture. From Mark Wallinger’s Turner Prize-winning performance in a bear suit, to Angela Carter’s concept of sexual multiplicity in The Passion of New Eve. Cutting-edge and politically engaging, R|Evolutions will appeal to general readers as well as the specialist, and it is designed for scholars not only interested in issues of cultural production, but also in the evolution of politics and perception over time.