... of Rancière's article “The Thread of the Novel” in this context and situate the other articles in this issue (by Elaine Freedgood, Emily Steinlight, Raji Vallury, Sarah Winter, and Davide Panagia) in relation to the same quandary. Introduction: Jacques Rancie`re and the Novel TIMOTHY BEWES Jacques Rancie...

... Sheldon . “Political Theory as a Vocation.” American Political Science Review 63 . 4 ( 1969 ): 1062 – 82 . Rancie`re’s Style DAVIDE PANAGIA Ce n’est pas une image juste, c’est juste une image. —J.-L. Godard...

... Philip . “Images d'égalité.” La philosophie déplacée: Autour de Jacques Rancière . Colloque de Cerisy . Perronas : Horlieu , 2006 . 361 – 70 . An Incalculable Rupture? The Aesthetics and Politics of Postcolonial Fiction RAJI VALLURY Jacques Rancie`re begins an article...

... . The Magistrate, the Camp, and the Novel: J.M.CoetzeeandtheSubjectofHumanRights SARAH WINTER Everything hinges on these few lines that separate the good proper to politics—justice— from all other forms of good. —Jacques Rancie`re, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy...

... Negri, Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Rancie`re, Judith Butler, and Alain Badiou—are regularly quoted and discussed in academic essays on literary and cultural studies. An element common to all these thinkers is the confrontation of institutional forms of democracy and the political (parliament, parties...

... 211 some cases; a philosopher in others, in the arguments of Jacques Rancie`re.1 The poor of the novelist, I will argue, are both the literally and subjectively poor char- acters of Mary Barton—fictional characters in the history of the novel more gener- ally who must, for generic logistical...

... forces and calcified social structures that block all paths to emancipation. In characterizing Jude the Obscure as something other than a Mal- thusian tragedy, I aim by extension to make a few suggestions about the politics of fiction. To that end, I will call on the insight of Jacques Rancie`re...

... to the historical rise of liberal institutions (although both of these things are of course true); rather, the novel is democratic because it is good at showing what is or, rather, what could be political about democracy. I take my sense of the political here from Jacques Rancie`re, who derives...

... . Wordsworth William . Preface . Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems . Ed. Butler James Green Karen . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1992 . 740 – 59 . The Thread of the Novel JACQUES RANCIE` RE ‘‘A wandering thread, lightly joining one thing to another such is the dream...

... Press Writing, Repetition, Displacement: An Interview with Jacques Rancie`re ABRAHAM GEIL In this interview, Jacques Rancie`re clarifies a number of the central concepts and underlying polemics that run throughout his considerable body of work. Touching on key aspects...

... such values exclude’’ (38). The aesthetic, in other words, makes pragmatism thinkable as a mode of governmentality. The subsequent chapters pursue this insight through several forms and genres, arguing that the aesthetic decision makes space in the text for what Jacques Rancie`re calls the subject...

.... For, indeed, if the novel is precisely not about genealogy but about social reproduction, then the narrative of self-formation and demos formation within the novel contains an important aesthetic dimension. To follow a line of thought concerning the aesthetic proposed by Jacques Rancie`re, we might...