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The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
Thomas Claviez
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Description for The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
Paperback. An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice. Series: Commonalities. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPN; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 316.
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Commonalities
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823270927
SKU
V9780823270927
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About Thomas Claviez
Thomas Claviez is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Bern. He is the author of Grenzfalle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom's Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008). He has published essays on pragmatism, ecology, American studies, American ... Read more
Reviews for The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
Revolt does not discourse, it growls. What does 'growl' mean? It's almost an onomatopoeia. It means to bawl, bellow, and roar. It means to shout together, to murmur, mumble, grouse, become indignant, protest, become enraged together. One tends to grumble alone but people growl in common. The common growl is a subterranean torrent: it passes underneath, making everything tremble.
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