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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Africa --- Europe --- Yeats, William B. --- English literature --- Yeats, William Butler --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- POLITIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PENSSE POLITIQUE ET SOCIALE

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Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism. Adán Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafón, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription in contemporary Argentine culture.

Politics in literature --- Politiek in de literatuur --- Politique dans la littérature --- Politics in literature. --- Marechal, Leopoldo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Marechal, Leopoldo --- Criticism and interpretation --- Political science in literature --- Marechal, L. --- Marechal, Leopoldo, - 1900-1970

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In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J. M. Coetzee and John Updike, V. S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by complacency or wishful thinking.In the main, though, Boyers writes as a lover of great literature who wishes to understand how the best writers do justice to their own political obsessions without suggesting that everything is reducible to politics. Resisting the notion that novels can be effectively translated into ideas or positions, he resists as well the notion that art and politics must be held apart, lest works of fiction somehow be contaminated by their association with "real life" or public issues. The essays offer a combination of close reading, argument, and assessment.What, Boyers asks, is the relationship between form and substance in a work whose formal properties are particularly striking? Is it reasonable to think of a particular writer as "reactionary" merely because he presents an unflattering portrait of revolutionary activists or because he is less than optimistic about the future of newly independent societies? What is the status of private life in works set in politically tumultuous times? Can the novelist be "responsible" if he consistently refuses to engage the conditions that affect even the intimate lives of his characters?Such questions inform these essays, which strive to be true to the essential spirit of the works they discuss and to interrogate, as sympathetically as possible, the imagination of writers who negotiate the unstable relationships between society and the individual, art and ideas.

Fiction --- Politics and literature --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political science in literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- Politics in literature --- History and criticism --- ROMAN --- POLITIQUE ET LITTERATURE --- POLITIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterising techniques, styles and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging 2004 study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Modernism (Literature) --- Capitalism and literature --- American literature --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Literature and capitalism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- CAPITALISME ET LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- AVANT-GARDE (ESTHETIQUE) --- CONSOMMATION (ECONOMIE POLITIQUE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- ECONOMIE POLITIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- ETATS-UNIS

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American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Ironie dans la littérature --- Ironie in de literatuur --- Irony in literature --- Politics in literature --- Politiek in de literatuur --- Politique dans la littérature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Satire --- Politics and literature --- United States --- History --- Politics and culture --- Literature and society --- Modernism (Literature) --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson --- Criticism and interpretation --- Dos Passos, John --- Ellison, Ralph Waldo