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What's Left?: The Ecole Normale Superieure and the Right (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)
Diane Rubenstein
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Description for What's Left?: The Ecole Normale Superieure and the Right (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)
Paperback. The author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure, the training ground for French intellectuals, is inaccurate because it represses the role of writing. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JN; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
In this study, the author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), the training ground for French intellectuals, is inaccurate because it represses the role of writing. By deconstructing the ENS as one would a text, she garners from the writing of the ""normaliens"" a picture of an institution that reinforces superiority, exclusivity and hierarchy. Towards the end of the book, Rubenstein relates the irony of the post-World War II trials of ""normaliens"" in which authors become victims of their own writing. ... Read more
In this study, the author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), the training ground for French intellectuals, is inaccurate because it represses the role of writing. By deconstructing the ENS as one would a text, she garners from the writing of the ""normaliens"" a picture of an institution that reinforces superiority, exclusivity and hierarchy. Towards the end of the book, Rubenstein relates the irony of the post-World War II trials of ""normaliens"" in which authors become victims of their own writing. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299125646
SKU
V9780299125646
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