Reaganism In Literary Theory
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Reaganism In Literary Theory
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Author : Jeremiah Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Reaganism In Literary Theory written by Jeremiah Bowen and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reaganism is a discourse of devotion and disqualification, combining a neoliberal negative theology of the market with a neoconservative demonization of opponents. Reagan’s personality cult shelters the aggressivity of a war of all against all by representing the market as a moralistic standard of perfection, a representation of goodness and freedom. In literary theory and criticism, a homologous valuative system centered itself on the canon, representing culture as a study of perfection. Paul de Man argued for the displacement of this positive moralistic reference, but his proposals ultimately replace it with a negative moralistic reference to literariness. De Man’s premises have been perpetuated in subsequent theory by persistent misrecognitions of dialectic as suspicious hermeneutics, of materialism as reference to materiality, and of demands for democratic equity as identity politics. Tracing this motivated reasoning through misreadings of Eve Sedgwick’s critique of conspiracy theory and Edward Said’s “secular criticism,” we are led back to the unexamined premises of Paul de Man’s negative moralism and the opportunistic competition of academic careerism.
Reaganism Thatcherism And The Social Novel
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Author : C. Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-10-31
Reaganism Thatcherism And The Social Novel written by C. Hutchinson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues, and assesses the state of both nations, as well as that of the contemporary novel.
Subverting Mainstream Narratives In The Reagan Era
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Author : Ashley M. Donnelly
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-03-23
Subverting Mainstream Narratives In The Reagan Era written by Ashley M. Donnelly and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-23 with Social Science categories.
Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era explores how artists, novelists, and directors were able to present narratives of strong dissent in popular culture during the Reagan Era. Using but subverting the tools of mainstream novels and films, these visionaries’ works were featured alongside other books in major bookstores and promoted alongside blockbusters in movie theatres across the country. Ashley M. Donnelly discusses how the artists accomplished this, why it is so important, and how new artists can use these techniques in today’s homogenous and mundane media.
Cold War Criticism And The Politics Of Skepticism
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Author : Tobin Siebers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-04-29
Cold War Criticism And The Politics Of Skepticism written by Tobin Siebers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership characterized by Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler lies behind the preoccupation with "intention," "affect," and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age of propaganda motivates the fascination with the guiles of language, undecidability, and deconstruction. The age of superpowers provides the dominant metaphor in the new historicism's analysis of the technology of power. All three ages of criticism reflect the skepticism of the Cold War mentality, and this skepticism, Siebers posits, has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism in an effective way. A trenchant analysis of postwar theory, Siebers's work presents a new view of the politics of criticism and a surprising vision of what theory must do if it is to enter the post Cold War era successfully.
Science Fiction In The Real World
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Author : Norman Spinrad
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1990
Science Fiction In The Real World written by Norman Spinrad and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Collections categories.
Updates Lentz's previous work (which Library journal said was producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, special effects technicians, make-up artists, art directors. III: film index. IV: TV series index. V: alternate title index. Science fiction writer Spinrad presents 13 essays, some previously published, examining particular works in the genre, aspects of the industry, and how they influence each other. Topics include critical standards, the visual expression in comic books and movies, modes of content, politics, and profiles of individual authors. No bibliography. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Deconstructing Reaganism
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Author : Douglas E. Forster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-02
Deconstructing Reaganism written by Douglas E. Forster and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-02 with Performing Arts categories.
As in so many other areas of American society, the political legacy of Ronald Reagan had an imposing presence in many contemporary American films, particularly between 1980 and 2000. Six films, which collectively represent the spectrum of Reaganism’s most popular tropes, demonstrate quite compellingly that in celebrating nostalgically the blissful pleasantries of family stability and social order so essential to Reagan’s political philosophy, an unsettling and unsatisfying mythology has been created about a period in which many Americans were acutely aware that something was missing, even if they could not pinpoint it at the time. This leads the critical viewer to largely unacknowledged subtexts in all six films that begin to reveal the contradictions, incoherencies, and paradoxes rooted in popular Reaganesque portrayals. Utilising a detailed qualitative case study methodology, this book incorporates theoretical foundations that expand upon Fairclough’s path-breaking research on media discourse and Todorov’s broadly articulated framework of fantasy in order to explore: 1) Which elements of Fairclough’s framework for critical discourse analysis can be applied to explore the discursive structures within these American fantasy films? 2) How far do the films follow Reaganist concepts of a “new” American society? 3) How far do notions of the “fantastic” and postmodern concepts break with common patterns of Reaganism reflected in these films? While many critics rightly cite the numerous elements in these films that appear to reinforce fundamental message points underlying Reaganism, this study demonstrates how the films’ characters and plot lines also serve to reveal the inherent and irreconcilable incoherence of the sociopolitical and sociocultural tenets of Reaganism.
Public Access
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Author : Michael Berube
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1994-06-17
Public Access written by Michael Berube and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the years of the Reagan–Bush era, the controversy over ‘political correctness’ erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-wing pundits like Dinesh D’Souza and Roger Kimball prosecuted their publicity campaign against progressive academics. Michael Bérubé’s brilliant new book explains how and why the political correctness furore emerged, and how the right’s apparent stranglehold on popular opinion about the academy can be loosened. Traversing the terrain of contemporary cultural criticism, Bérubé examines the state of cultural studies, the significance of postmodernism, the continuing debate over multicultural curricula, and the recent revisions of literary history in American studies. Also included is Bérubé’s witty and self-deprecating autobiographical reflection on why interpretive theory has emerged as an indispensable part of education in the humanities over the past decade Public Access insists that academics must exercise more responsibility towards the publics who underwrite but often misunderstand their work and its significance. Taken seriously as a potential audience, Bérubé argues, such publics can be weaned from their present inclination to believe the distortions and half-truths peddled by the right’s ideologues. The goal of such ‘public access’ criticism is not just a better environment for teachers and scholars, but a world in which education itself achieves its proper place in a society committed to equality of opportunity and true critical thinking.
An Empire Of Ideals
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Author : Justin D. Garrison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
An Empire Of Ideals written by Justin D. Garrison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rigorous examination of Ronald Reagan's intuitive sense of reality as it was expressed chiefly in his presidential speeches. Justin D. Garrison argues that Reagan's chimeric imagination contains many dubious elements that present serious problems for politics.
Novels From Reagan S America
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Author : Joseph Dewey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Novels From Reagan S America written by Joseph Dewey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
"If postmodern play is literature's equivalent to Disney World, then Dewey introduces us to authors who work against the glitz, who try to find something worth committing to in a world of simulacra."--Kathryn Hume, Distinguished Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University "A vivid and engaging account of American literature produced during the Reagan Era . . . intelligent, thoughtful, and accessible."--James A. Schiff, University of Cincinnati Introducing the term "spectacle realism," Joseph Dewey analyzes eight contemporary novels that extend the current understanding of American literary realism, the authors of which possess a moral energy and compassion often obscured in postmodern writing. For nearly 100 years, Dewey says, American realism produced novels that treated most bleakly the major events in people's lives--like falling in love or facing death. Focusing on the Reagan era, Dewey examines a group of popular novelists (Joyce Carol Oates, John Irving, Reynolds Price, T. Coraghessan Boyle, William Kennedy, Robert Ferro, Anne Tyler, and Richard Powers) who departed from that traditional realism. Their characters move beyond disillusionment to affirmation, finding that engagement with the signature events of their lives brings rewards rather than punishment. In addition to presenting a compelling picture of the cultural values of the 1980s, Novels from Reagan's America shows how significant writers have begun to reclaim for fiction the traditional right to illuminate our lives. Joseph Dewey, associate professor of contemporary American literature at the University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, is the author of In A Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age and of articles in the Mississippi Quarterly, the Hollins Critic, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction.
Critical Theory Now
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Author : Philip Wexler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-05-20
Critical Theory Now written by Philip Wexler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-20 with Education categories.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.