The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction

by Jacques Rancière

Book Overview

In The Lost Thread, Ranci re debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Ranci re proposes a radical rethinking of our received ideas regarding the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350025682
• ISBN13: 9781350025684
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"