Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession - Rilegato

Khalip, Jacques

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ISBN 10: 0804758409 ISBN 13: 9780804758406

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and dispossessed, one whose authority is irreducible to that of an easily recognizable, psychologized persona. In Anonymous Life, Khalip goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on transparency and self-disclosure. He explores how romantic subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails to prove its authenticity and coherence.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804758409
• ISBN 13: 9780804758406
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 235
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile