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Power and Literature - Strategies of Subversiveness in the Romanian Novel (Hardcover)
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Power and Literature - Strategies of Subversiveness in the Romanian Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Mimesis
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At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as
socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse).
It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its
various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal
Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and
denounce them. The first part of the study is theoretical: it
presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato,
Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or
Foucault. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of
Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it
articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse
within a typology of four categories. In the second part of the
book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the
context of Romanian "literary crossroads", showing how novelistic
fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against
the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when
experiencing History.
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