ISBN:
9781800852358 (ebook) :
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 75
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online
Series Statement:
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ;
Series Statement:
Liverpool scholarship online.
Parallel Title:
Print version :
DDC:
305.50944
Keywords:
Social classes History 20th century.
;
Social classes History 21st century.
;
Social change History 20th century.
;
Social change History 21st century.
;
Social classes in literature.
;
French literature History and criticism. 20th century
;
French literature History and criticism. 21st century
Abstract:
The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple (Short Voyages to the Land of the People) (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Ranciere. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Matre ignorant (The Ignorant Schoolmaster) (1987), Ranciere reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. This book explores embedded forms of social and cultural 'apportionment' in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
URL:
Liverpool scholarship online
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