Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States write by Ahmet Ersoy. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Notwithstanding the advantages of physical power, the struggle for survival among societies is not merely a matter of serial armed clashes but of the nation's spiritual resources that in the end always decide upon the victory. In Europe, there indeed exist independent countries, insignificant from the point of view of the entire civilization, and born by sheer coincidence, yet, this coincidence, this fancy, or diplomatic ploy that created them can just as easily bring them to an end---the nations that count in the political calculations are only the enlightened ones. Therefore, our nation should not merely grow in power, strengthen its character, and foster in people the feeling of love for homeland, but also---inasmuch as it is possible---breath the fresh breeze of humanity's general progress, feed it to the nation, absorb its creative energy. Until now, we have trusted and lived only in the weary conditions, conditions devoid of health-giving elements---now, as a result the nation's heart beats too slowly and its mind works too tediously. We ought to open our windows to Europe, to the wind of continental change and allow it to air our sultry home, since as not all health comes from the inside, not all disease comes from the outside.
A Social Theory of the Nation-State
A Social Theory of the Nation-State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Social Theory of the Nation-State write by Daniel Chernilo. This book was released on 2008-03-25. A Social Theory of the Nation-State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.
Modernism: Representations of National Culture
Modernism: Representations of National Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism: Representations of National Culture write by Ahmet Ersoy. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Modernism: Representations of National Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures, from the different ideological approaches and finessing projects of how to create the modern state liberal, conservative, socialist and others to the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel write by Pericles Lewis. This book was released on 2000-04-24. Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individual consciousness to address the distinctively political ways in which the modern nation-state shapes the psyche of its subjects. Tracing this theme through Joyce, Proust and Conrad, amongst others, Lewis claims that modern novelists gave life to a whole generation of narrators who forged new social realities in their own images. Their literary techniques - multiple narrators, transcriptions of consciousness, involuntary memory, and arcane symbolism - focused attention on the shaping of the individual by the nation and on the potential of the individual, in time of crisis, to redeem the nation.
The Nation's Region
The Nation's Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nation's Region write by Leigh Anne Duck. This book was released on 2009. The Nation's Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time in southern narrative first accommodated but finally elucidated the relationship between these two political philosophies. Although racial segregation was codified by U.S. law, says Leigh Anne Duck, nationalist discourse downplayed its significance everywhere but in the South, where apartheid was conceded as an immutable aspect of an anachronistic culture. As the nation modernized, the South served as a repository of the country's romantic notions: the region was represented as a close-knit, custom-bound place through which the nation could temper its ambivalence about the upheavals of progress. The Great Depression changed this. Amid economic anxiety and the international rise of fascism, writes Duck, "the trope of the backward South began to comprise an image of what the United States could become." As she moves from the Depression to the nascent years of the civil rights movement to the early cold war era, Duck explains how experimental writers in each of these periods challenged ideas of a monolithically archaic South through innovative representations of time. She situates their narratives amid broad concern regarding national modernization and governance, as manifest in cultural and political debates, sociological studies, and popular film. Although southern modernists' modes and methods varied along this trajectory, their purpose remained focused: to explore the mutually constitutive relationships between social forms considered "southern" and "national."
