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... Roman insupportable (Paris: Gallimard). Weinstein, Arnold 1993 Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (New York: Oxford University Press). The Politics of Modernity: Céline and French Literature between the Wars Sebastian Veg Centre de...

..., in the Soviet Union itself, the term samizdat was used in a broader sense, to mean diverse phenomena of unofficial cultural production—not necessarily of literary origin or dissident politics. In this broader sense, the term may be used to describe music samizdat (also known as magnitizdat ), cinematic samizdat...

... of the broader politics of representing life behind the iron curtain. It argues that Philip Roth's sustained professional engagement with the Czech socialist experience can be read as his critical refusal to take part in the dominant U.S. narrative of Eastern European suffering and oppression. The essay analyzes...

...Brian McHale Tyrus Miller, Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press , 2009 . 258 pp . Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 New Books at a Glance Rebecca Beasley, Theorists of Modernist Poetry: T. S...

...Svetlana Boym This essay proposes to place the poetics of Russian Formalism within a broader European context of literary, philosophical, and political reflection on modernity. The historical metamorphosis of estrangement from a technique of art to an existential art of survival and a practice...

...: Avtobiograficheskaia proza Viktora Shklovskogo,” Druzhba narodov 12 : 170 -83. The Politics of Estrangement: The Case of the Early Shklovsky Galin Tihanov European Languages and Cultures, Lancaster Abstract I discuss here Shklovsky’s theory of estrangement as formulated in a num- ber of texts...

... relationship between the aesthetics and politics of estrangement and argues that an attentive look at the history of estrangement reveals its deep involvement with revolutionary and police state politics. This essay traces estrangement's conflicted development through Victor Shklovsky's oeuvre and beyond...

... goes hand in hand with noticing its many, complex, and sometimes contradictory political uses and resonances. In Elsky's treatment, the poetics of custom is intertwined with the politics of colonization (from the perspective of both the colonizer and the colonized), the politics of class and gender...

... that a rhetorical narrative strategy, the allusive cognitive metaphor , is effective in conveying viral ideological content in contemporary storytelling environments. The allusive cognitive metaphor (ACM) has been adopted in recent years in cultural and political debate to advocate and spread views efficiently...

...). Bacílek, Karol 1953 Poučenie z procesu s vedením protistátneho spionázneho a sprisahaneckého centra na čele s Rudolfom Slánským (Bratislava: Slovenske vydavatelstvo politickej literatúry). Brabec, Václav 1969 “The Relationship of the CPCS and the Public to the Political Trials...

...Andrew Franta Recent work on Shelley has focused on the relationship between poetry and politics, attempting to explain poetry's role in effecting political change. This essay argues that such an approach—which asks how Shelley's political opinions are manifested in his poems—misses the point...

... history. The intense and sustained political conflict between Parliament and the king, notwithstand- ing its bickering tone, its sordid broadside debates, its political murders and character assassinations, its relentless use of propaganda and wholesale politicization of the arts, provided the spur...

... “reproductive futurism” to describe the tendency to define political value in terms of a future “for the children” and insisting that the power of queer critique inheres in its opposition to this narrative and therefore to politics as we know it. This assertion inspired extensive debate on relationships between...

...Cat Moir This article makes a case for the relevance of Ernst Bloch's philosophy to thinking through the political consequences of contemporary “speculative materialist” theory. Quentin Meillassoux's speculative materialism offers a vision of the world in which a future of justice may be materially...

...Douglas Morrey Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of “declinism” in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics...

...Jonathan Monroe In leading off the section “Aftershock: Poetry and Cultural Politics since 1989,” this essay takes as its point of departure the pivotal historical, cultural, and political questions posed by the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores, in particular, the concomitant collapse...

...Martin Machovec The term samizdat , now widespread, denotes the unofficial dissemination of any variety of text (book, magazine, leaflet, etc.) within “totalitarian” political systems, especially those after World War II. Such publishing, though often not explicitly forbidden by law, was always...

... in Communism's breakdown. The article's main goal is thus to elucidate the peculiar nature of this resistance—to explicate the role of discourse in undermining the political order. Why did the end of totalitarian terror in Bulgaria take a theoretical turn? Is it fair to say that the breakdown of the regime...

... have traveled from the politically inflected theory of earlier decades. In this article I place Levinas's writings alongside the critical prose of Brodsky, whose radical commitment to poetry—what Seamus Heaney called his “peremptory trust in words”—is set at a similar theoretical distance from the idea...

...Peter Steiner One of the most unique phenomena of the Stalinist political culture was the political trials of leading Communist functionaries that took place in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies from the 1930s to the 1950s, usually culminating with the defendants' executions...