Rancière and Literature - (Critical Connections) by Grace Hellyer & Julian Murphet (Hardcover)

About the Book

These 13 essays consolidate and critique Rancière's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice.

Book Synopsis

These 13 original essays engage with Rancière's accounts of literature from across his work, putting his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of literary criticism. From his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice, this collection unearths, consolidates, evaluates and critiques Rancière's work on literature.

From the Back Cover

An exploration of Jacques Rancière's contribution to literary scholarship With the increasingly rapid translation of Rancière's writing into English, the question of what this philosopher has to offer to the study of literature has become pressing. This collection of 12 original essays both engages with Rancière's accounts of literature from across his body of work and puts his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of literary criticism. From his archival investigations of the literary efforts of nineteenth-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice, this book seeks to unearth, to consolidate, to evaluate and to critique this influential thinker's work on and with literature. Grace Hellyer has a PhD from the University of New South Wales and Julian Murphet is Scientia Professor in Modern Film and Literature also at the University of New South Wales. Cover image: book tunnel in Prague library (c) VLADJ55/Shutterstock.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0257-6 Barcode

About the Author

Grace Hellyer Grace Hellyer has a PhD from the University of New South Wales.

Julian Murphet is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide. He is the author, previously, of Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Multimedia Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Faulkner's Media Romance (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Todd Solondz (Northern Illinois University Press, 2019), and of the forthcoming Modern Character: 1888-1905 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Twentieth-Century Prison Writing: A Literary Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).