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Fictional Labor
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Author : Jiewon Baek
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-15
Fictional Labor written by Jiewon Baek and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective meaning in an era marked by the negligence of social, financial, and environmental responsibility. As neoliberalism’s hegemony since the 1980s has intensified through the proliferation of digital technologies in the 21st century, considering works of creative art as an ethically productive force is a necessary complement to political and economic critiques. The book invites readers to rethink how mutations in the production, circulation, and consumption of literary and visual materials are implicated in the commodification of information and attention for private gain. The link can have a positive effect that transforms the social relation from a capitalist ethos that expends life for profit to an alterity-driven ethos that defends life. But remedying the paucity of moral sentiments of social existence requires fictional labor to generate ethical sensibilities, cares, desires, and wills. The book’s close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.
The Literature Of Labor And The Labors Of Literature
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Author : Cindy Weinstein
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-01-27
The Literature Of Labor And The Labors Of Literature written by Cindy Weinstein and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature juxtaposes representations of labor in fictional texts with representations of labor in nonfictional texts in order to trace the intersections between aesthetic and economic discourse in nineteenth-century America. This intersection is particularly evident in the debates about symbol and allegory, and the author contends that allegory during this period was critiqued on precisely the same grounds as mechanized labor. Despite the undeniable differences between literary characters and historical workers, the discursive possibilities for constructing the character of both fictional and nonfictional persons are strikingly similar. Both allegory and the new forms of labor produced a version of personhood that seemed frighteningly flat, a flatness that attacked the substance of the work ethic and, indeed, the very foundations of American individualism. Using this contextualized model of allegory, Weinstein goes on to argue that texts by Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and Henry Adams are best understood as both allegories of labor (that is, the allegorical representations of the nature and cost of being a laboring being) and labors of allegory (that is, the visibility of the author's work of representation). In the course of completing a historical investigation, Weinstein revolutionizes thc notion of allegorical narrative, which is exposed as a literary medium of greater complexity and consequence than has previously been implied - a working authorial vehicle for engaged and at times socially turbulent thought.
The Bonds Of Labor
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Author : Carol Poore
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Bonds Of Labor written by Carol Poore and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"The Bonds of Labor is a book that augments both historical studies of class relations and the labor movement as well as literary studies of German themes and images by exploring the cultural history of responses to social inequities. This literary exploration of the industrial world will be important reading for scholars and students of German cultural and social history, German literature, and labor studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Fictional Accounts Of The Industrial Revolution
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Author : Monica T. Quock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Fictional Accounts Of The Industrial Revolution written by Monica T. Quock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Industrial revolution categories.
21st Century Us Historical Fiction
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Author : Ruth Maxey
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-17
21st Century Us Historical Fiction written by Ruth Maxey and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new novels, for example, recent Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction by Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colson Whitehead. Interrogating such key themes as war, race, sexuality, trauma and childhood; notions of genre and periodization; and recent theorizations of historical fiction, scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland analyze an emerging canon of contemporary historical fiction by an ethno-racially diverse range of major American writers.
Precarious Labour And The Contemporary Novel
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Author : Liam Connell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-13
Precarious Labour And The Contemporary Novel written by Liam Connell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan
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Author : Todd McGowan
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
The Fictional Christopher Nolan written by Todd McGowan and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This analysis of the role of fiction in the films of Christopher Nolan is “unassumingly brilliant and surgically incisive” (Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society). From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast web of deceit that transcends any individual lies. The formal structure of a typical Nolan film deceives spectators about the events that occur and the motivations of the characters. While Nolan’s films do not abandon the idea of truth altogether, they show us how truth must emerge out of the lie if it is not to lead us entirely astray. The Fictional Christopher Nolan discovers in Nolan’s films an exploration of the role that fiction plays in leading to truth. Through close readings of all the films through Inception, Todd McGowan demonstrates that the fiction or the lie comes before the truth, and this priority forces us to reassess our ways of thinking about the nature of truth. Indeed, McGowan argues that Nolan’s films reveal the ethical and political importance of creating fictions and even of lying. Nolan is the first filmmaker to devote himself entirely to the fictionality of the medium, and McGowan discloses how Nolan uses its tendency to deceive as the basis for a new kind of philosophical filmmaking, aligning Nolan’s films with Hegel’s philosophy. “The most important work to date on Christopher Nolan. . . . [A] thrill to read.” —Hugh S. Manon, Associate Professor and Director of Screen Studies, Clark University
Fictional Females Mirrors And Models
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Author : Eleanor Hochman
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2002-06-21
Fictional Females Mirrors And Models written by Eleanor Hochman and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fictional Females is a book about books--specifically, about more than 160 American novels that had female protagonists, appeared between the immediate post-Revolutionary period and the beginning of World War II, and shaped as well as reflected women ́s lives. All 80 authors, both men and women, were bestsellers and/or critically acclaimed in their time, and their fiction provides a record of how successive generations of women accepted or challenged the conventions of their day and enjoyed the rewards or suffered the consequences of either choice. Today, an examination of those novels and the historical context in which they appeared illuminates the changing conscious and unconscious assumptions about the nature of woman--of what she is, what she wants, and what she gets--over the years.
Images Of The Worker In Contemporary Chinese Fiction 1949 1964
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Author : Michael Louis Gotz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Images Of The Worker In Contemporary Chinese Fiction 1949 1964 written by Michael Louis Gotz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Chinese fiction categories.
Asian American Fiction After 1965
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Author : Christopher T. Fan
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23
Asian American Fiction After 1965 written by Christopher T. Fan and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation’s children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers’ works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers’ attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.”