Reclaiming William Morris

Englishness, Sublimity, and the Rhetoric of Dissent

Michelle Weinroth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1996
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-1439-3 (ISBN)

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Discussing the relations between nationalism, rhetoric and revolution, this text shows how the English legacy of William Morris was appropriated in the interests of political forces seeking hegemonic power.

Moving through theoretical, historical, and exegetical analyses of propagandist texts, Reclaiming William Morris brings out the aesthetic underpinnings of nationalist ideology. Combining the philosophical substance of Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, and Ernst Bloch with Kantian aesthetics, Weinroth constructs a conceptual apparatus that explains the impassioned yet decidedly marginal rhetoric of early twentieth-century English communism.

Michelle Weinroth teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Ottawa. Paul Leduc Browne is professor of political science at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.

Philosophical reflections - towards a theory of propaganda; conservative propaganda and the legacy of William Morris; propaganda of the Third International and the emerging; Marxist Morris Matyrdom and the communist intellectual; the irrationality of rationalist discourse - a phenomenology of communist propaganda; "England, our England" - the sublime poetics of communist propaganda; "the biting edge of British humour" - the sublime patriotism of Cold War communists.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.9.1996
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-7735-1439-2 / 0773514392
ISBN-13	978-0-7735-1439-3 / 9780773514393
Zustand	Neuware