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Politique de la littaerature.English

Jacques Ranciaere; translated by Julie Rose

Polity

vii, 215 p

First published in French as : Politique de la littaerature.

Hypotheses. The politics of literature ; Literary misunderstanding -- Figures. The putting to death of Emma Bovary : literature, democracy, and medicine. On the battlefield : Tolstoy, literature, history ; The intruder : Mallarmaeʹs politics ; The gay science of Bertolt Brecht ; Borges and French disease -- Crossings. The truth through the window : literary truth, Freudian truth ; The historian, literature and the genre of biography ; The poet at the philosopherʹs : Mallarmae and Badiou.

PN

51

.R29

2011

9780745645315 (pbk.) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index

c2011