... and appropriated them for a burgeoning revolutionary culture. In his teaching notes, Zhou upholds the people as the transformative engine for social progress: they are authors of their own culture, the political subjects of popular democracy, and in solidarity with the working classes of the world. This essay...

... of the Green Fairy] . İstanbul : Can Yayınları , 2010 . Ünal Hayriye . “Selçuk Orhan'la 40 HadisÜzerine.” Hece Öykü 41 ( 2010 ): 146 – 59 . Hermits, Stoics, and Hysterics: Turkish Democracy and the Female Bildungsroman MELTEM GU¨ RLE The Compromised Public Sphere...

... totalitarian threat” for the twenty-first century, as evidenced by such proclamations as the 2006 Euston Manifesto (“For a Renewal of Progressive Politics”). This discourse employs different names—“Islamofascism,” “Islamic totalitarianism”—but each signifies a tentacular threat to liberal democracy across...

...Pam Morris Jacques Rancière , The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Literature , trans. Steven Corcoran ( London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2017 ), pp. 156 , paper, $21.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 The lost thread of Jacques Rancière's title is an overdetermined...

...Nancy Armstrong This essay looks at the form of sovereignty that Alexis de Tocqueville saw as uniquely American in relation to the form of self-sovereignty that had developed in eighteenth-century England and France. By 1840, American democracy had, in Tocqueville's view, become the perfect...

...Elizabeth S. Anker This essay analyzes how Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! rewrites and overturns a number of the generic and other conventions that have typically been enlisted to theorize the novel's bearing on democracy. Political philosophy and law have advanced a number of enabling fictions...

...Horacio Legrás Following the lead of Jacques Rancière, I argue in this essay that democracy andthe institution of literature share structural features that are inescapably historical in nature. The essay maps the interaction between literature and democracy in the case of two prominent contemporary...

... a “caucus-race” is doing in Wonderland, this essay looks at the history of the caucus, recent political theories of democracy, Lewis Carroll's mathematical work on the theory and practice of elections, and, finally, his literary thinking about what it might really mean to live democratically. © 2014...

..., To the Lighthouse , and The Waves , the essay analyzes the various ways in which Woolf tries to dismiss this compromise. It also focuses on the political implication of the problem: modern fiction opposes the democracy of life to the old hierarchy of action, but it does so at the cost of sacrificing the social...

... the dark climax of that modernity, with democracy still very much alive; the 1936 Essence of the National Polity , a book-length propaganda essay produced by a committee of literary scholars and political hacks in the linguistic vacuum of fascist Japan; and Oe Kenzaburo's 1964 A Personal Matter...

...Brian T. Edwards This essay proposes that “circulation” is a useful rubric for thinking about the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel and its relationship to democracy. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, a new generation of Cairo-based writers employed innovative forms and linguistic...

... that the aesthetics at play in the novel as a genre are instrumental in creating and defining the demos and its limits; moreover, it is precisely at the site of the limit (figured within, say, the liminal space of the colony) that the more radical possibilities of democracy come into focus. The novel set...

...—a grappling that is necessary for democracy—has, in neoliberal politics and aesthetics alike, been largely jettisoned in favor of expediency and the fantasy of total individual freedom. Turning to a reading of Rachel Kushner's novel The Flamethrowers , the essay finds that Kushner plays with the functions...

... at the same time. The result is a vision of urban communities in which varieties of humans and nonhumans make their presence felt and their voices heard—a more-than-human democracy that turns the idea of the Anthropocene away from its uniquely human focus. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

... the disconnect between the United States' Lockean ideals and its very un-Lockean patterns of property ownership—a disconnect that became acute within Jacksonian democracy. In doing so, Sheppard Lee reframes a wider debate among early American writers about the future of the novel in the United States. The most...

.... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Victorian novel George Eliot reading public reader address democracy Literature is the reign of writing, of speech circulating outside any determined relationship of address. —Jacques Rancière When Wilkie Collins announced that he had...

... Claude . Democracy and Political Theory . Trans. Macey David . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1988 . Lukács Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans. Bostock Anna . Cambridge : MIT P , 1971...

...Lucy Hartley Margolis Stacey , Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America ( Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2015 ), pp. 207, cloth, $99.99 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 What are the forms that democracy can take beyond political institutions...

... that this condition of plurality forbids a democracy based on a republicanism that envisions the mutual availability of each citizen’s experience to all other citizens informs the writing of Douglass and his peers. In ways that have not been fully acknowledged, the formal structures and the- matic...

... and Repetition . Trans. Patton Paul . New York : Columbia UP , 1994 . Ferguson Frances . Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2004 . Gutmann Amy Thompson Dennis . Democracy and Disagreement . Cambridge : Belknap P of Harvard...