The Parvenu S Plot
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The Parvenu S Plot
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Author : Stephanie Foote
language : en
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Release Date : 2014-11-04
The Parvenu S Plot written by Stephanie Foote and has been published by University of New Hampshire Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this very readable volume, Stephanie Foote gathers a range of print sources--from novels by Edith Wharton and Henry James to gossip columns, fashion magazines, popular novels, and etiquette manuals--to ask how the realist period understood the individual experience of class. Examining the female arriviste (the parvenu of the title) in turn-of-the-century New York (where a supposedly stable elite was threatened by the nouveaux riches), Foote shows how class became more than just an economic position: it was a fundamental part of individual identity, exemplified by a shifting set of social behaviors that form the core of many nineteenth-century novels. She persuasively presents the female parvenu as a key figure in turn-of-the-century culture that embodies the volatility of social standing and the continuing project of structuring and justifying it.
The Parvenu
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Author : Florentino S. Dauz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Parvenu written by Florentino S. Dauz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Philippine fiction (English) categories.
Heroes And States
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Author : J. Douglas Canfield
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Heroes And States written by J. Douglas Canfield and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Drama categories.
To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England. In Heroes and States, Douglas Canfield argues that drama not only represents but actually helps constitute the value and belief systems of an entire culture. Heroes and States completes Canfield's two-volume cultural history of Restoration drama, begun in Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. In this second volume Canfield shows how Restoration playwrights attempted to rein scribe late-feudal aristocratic ideology after the English Civil War. In the serious drama of the period, conflict is between noble heroes, upon whom states are built, and transgressors of the established order—tyrants, traitors, usurpers, rapists, and atheists. Canfield considers several sub genres of tragedy. He argues that most of these sub genres reaffirm the older ideology after testing it in the fires of conflict. Tragical satire, on the other hand, the most subversive of these sub genres, exposes the failure of the ruling class to live up to its own codes and, in some cases, the absurdity of the codes themselves. Canfield also finds playwrights struggling with issues of race and colonialism. He uses the work of modern theorists such as Bakhtin, Girard, Kristeva, Derrida, Althusser, Williams, and Eagleton to illuminate aspects of his inquiries. Restoration tragedy stands on the cusp of a cultural transition from a late feudal to an early bourgeois ideology, and the issues and themes addressed in the theater validate the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England.
The Philosopher And His Poor By Jacques Ranci Re A Synopsis With Comments
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Author : Stefan Szczelkun PhD (RCA)
language : en
Publisher: Stefan Szczelkun
Release Date : 2023-11-25
The Philosopher And His Poor By Jacques Ranci Re A Synopsis With Comments written by Stefan Szczelkun PhD (RCA) and has been published by Stefan Szczelkun this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with Philosophy categories.
Rancière's caustic critique of the classism of some key philosophers - Plato, Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre and Pierre Bourdieu is summarised with many quotations. This can act as an introduction to the work or as a reading companion. I have tried to make this as accessible and clear as I can. Pls let me know if anything is unclear.
The Reader S Handbook Of Allusions References Plots And Stories
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Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : J.B. Lippincott
Release Date : 1889
The Reader S Handbook Of Allusions References Plots And Stories written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and has been published by Philadelphia, Pa. : J.B. Lippincott this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Allusions categories.
Longing To Belong
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Author : S. Sasson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-11
Longing To Belong written by S. Sasson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This drama of exclusion is symptomatic of nineteenth-century society: ambivalent about social mobility, oscillating between a new sense of opportunity for all and a backward-looking retrenchment to rigid social structures.
The Reader S Handbook Of Allusions References Plots And Stories With Three Appendices
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Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The Reader S Handbook Of Allusions References Plots And Stories With Three Appendices written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Allusions categories.
Upward Mobility And The Common Good
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Author : Bruce Robbins
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-12-21
Upward Mobility And The Common Good written by Bruce Robbins and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, Robbins shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor. In his view, Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs becomes a key figure of social mobility in our time. Robbins argues that passionate and ambiguous relationships (like that between Lecter and Clarice Starling) carry the upward mobility story far from anyone's simple self-interest, whether the protagonist's or the mentor's. Robbins concludes that upward mobility stories have paradoxically helped American and European society make the transition from an ethic of individual responsibility to one of collective accountability, a shift that made the welfare state possible, but that also helps account for society's fascination with cases of sexual abuse and harassment by figures of authority.
The Politics Of Postmodernity
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Author : James Good
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-23
The Politics Of Postmodernity written by James Good 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 1998-07-23 with Political Science categories.
In his study Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contrasts the hopes and expectations of the modernising world of the nineteenth century with the real outcomes of the twentieth century, where the very conditions of modernity have led to the mass destruction of humanity and of those early hopes for the betterment of humankind. This volume explores the possibilities left to those once modernising societies, not only in terms of the worlds they have constructed but also in discerning the novel conditions which the closure of modernity entails. That closure, in part the completion of industrialisation and the social order that went with it, and in part the dislocation of the kinds of social knowledge used to understand it, has raised profound and disturbing questions about the character of this brave new world and the ways in which its governance and the goal of the good society can be understood. This volume explores some of the current vicissitudes of modernity, especially in relation to the crises of the political, and the political consequences of new technologies.
Postmodernity And Its Discontents
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Author : Zygmunt Bauman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-05-20
Postmodernity And Its Discontents written by Zygmunt Bauman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-20 with Social Science categories.
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the 'will to happiness': the result, however, is a sacrificing of security. The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life. This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to second-year undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.