This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary...
This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discou...
-Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky's vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture.---Mike Davis
-Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight.---Tariq Ali
Leon Trotsky penned this engaging book to elucidate the complex way in which art informs-- and can alter--our understanding of the world. Features new reader-friendly explanatory notes.
Leon Trotsky was...
-Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of ...
This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary...
This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discou...
First published 1984. In a provocative study, this book argues that the problems posed by Shelley s notoriously difficult style must be understood in relation to his ambivalence towards language itself as an artistic medium the tension between the potential of language to mirror emotional experience and the recognition of it s inevitable limitations. Through an exposition of Shelley s "idea "of language, as reflected in his theoretical writings and individual poems, this book makes a strong case for his artistic worth. A definitive introduction to Shelley, useful for both scholars and...
First published 1984. In a provocative study, this book argues that the problems posed by Shelley s notoriously difficult style must be understood ...
