Modernism and the idea of the crowd:

This book argues that modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities. Judith Paltin compares patterns of crowds in modernist Anglophone literature to historical arrangements and theories...

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1. Verfasser: Paltin, Judith 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:This book argues that modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf engaged creatively with modernity's expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities. Judith Paltin compares patterns of crowds in modernist Anglophone literature to historical arrangements and theories of democratic assembly to argue that an abstract construction of the crowd engages with the transformation of popular subjectivity from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with intersectional conditions of oppression and precarity. Modernist works, many of which were composed during the ascendancy of fascism and other populist politics claiming to be based on the action of the crowd, frequently stage the crowd as a primal scene for violence; at the same time, they posit a counterforce in more agile collective gatherings which clarify the changing relations in literary modernity between subjects and power
Beschreibung:Introduction: Night terrors -- Compositions of the crowds of modernism -- Crowd involvements and attachments -- Crowds and transformation -- Crowds and agility -- Conclusion: Assembly and the agile becoming-subject. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 225 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108907026
DOI:10.1017/9781108907026

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