Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Literature: Choreographies of Social Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367666682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Tudor Balinisteanu

Opis

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical politics, that is, choreographies of social performance which emerge at the intersection of literature, art, and embodied life. Drawing on a number of influential texts by William Wordsworth, Josep

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Bruno Latour: The Traditional Subject and the Articulated Body amidst Statements, Propositions, and Compositions

2 Dance and the Social Language of Action

3 Conscious and Unconscious Projections of Economic Forces in Wordsworth’s Writing

4 Confronting the Capitalist Unconscious: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

5 The Poetic Dimension of Anarcho-Syndicalist Politics in Nueva Australia

6 Yeats’s Dancers Dancing

7 Joyce’s Choreographies of Gesture

8 Choreographies of Social Performance

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Tudor Balinisteanu is currently a Research Fellow in English Literature at University of Suceava, Romania. He is the author of Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats (2015), Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (2013), and Narrative, Social Myth, and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women's Writing: Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr (2009). He has also published in a number of British, Irish, Canadian, and American journals.