The Imperial Sublime - 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 Imperial Sublime write by Harsha Ram. This book was released on 2006-03-31. The Imperial Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Imperial Sublime examines the rise of the Russian empire as a literary theme simultaneous with the evolution of Russian poetry between the 1730s and 1840—the century during which poets defined the main questions facing Russian literature and society. Harsha Ram shows how imperial ideology became implicated in an unexpectedly wide range of issues, from formal problems of genre, style, and lyric voice to the vexed relationship between the poet and the ruling monarch.
Late Colonial Sublime
Late Colonial Sublime - 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 Late Colonial Sublime write by G. S. Sahota. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Late Colonial Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India. Working through the limits of both Marxism and postcolonial critique, this book forges an innovative approach to the question of late romanticism and grounds categories such as the sublime within the dynamic of commodification. While G. S. Sahota takes canonical European critics such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to the outskirts of empire, he reads Indian writers such as Muhammad Iqbal and Jayashankar Prasad in light of the expansion of instrumental rationality and the neotraditional critiques of the West it spurred at the onset of decolonization. By bringing together distinct literary canons—both metropolitan and colonial, hegemonic and subaltern, Western and Eastern, all of which took shape upon the common realities of imperial capitalism—Late Colonial Sublime takes an original dialectical approach. It experiments with fragments, parallaxes, and constellational form to explore the aporias of modernity as well as the possible futures they may signal in our midst. A bold intervention into contemporary debates that synthesizes a wealth of sources, this book will interest readers and scholars in world literature, critical theory, postcolonial criticism, and South Asian studies.
The Imperial Trace
The Imperial Trace - 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 Imperial Trace write by Nancy Condee. This book was released on 2009-04-08. The Imperial Trace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the conditions of production, or the preoccupations of its filmmakers? This expansive study takes up this complex question through a commanding analysis of the late Soviet and post-Soviet period auteurists, Kira Muratova, Vadim Abdrashitov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Aleksandr Sokurov and Aleksei Balabanov.
The Sublime
The Sublime - 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 Sublime write by Timothy M. Costelloe. This book was released on 2012-07-30. The Sublime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on 'the sublime'.
Freedom's Empire
Freedom's Empire - 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 Freedom's Empire write by Laura Anne Doyle. This book was released on 2008-01-11. Freedom's Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A sweeping argument that from the mid-seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth, the English-language novel encoded ideas equating race with liberty.
