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The Lost Thread - The Democracy of Modern Fiction (Paperback)
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The Lost Thread - The Democracy of Modern Fiction (Paperback)
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In The Lost Thread, Ranciere 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, Ranciere
proposes a radical rethinking of our received ideas regarding the
politics of aesthetics in the modern era. Through a complex and
original stitching together of form and content, modernists strove
to depict by embodying new forms and regimes of material and
everyday life. Ranciere articulates this substantial change in the
politics of representation by explaining the shattering of the
sacrosanct hierarchies of the genres and life-forms of classical
literature. In the midst of the 19th century, poets, novelists and
playwrights challenged the narrative staples of noble means and
moral ends, and introduced an entirely new "structure of feeling".
In this work, Ranciere continues his project of outlining an
egalitarian "distribution of the sensible" as the compelling
linkage between politics and aesthetics in the modern age. The Lost
Thread not only advances Ranciere's commended work on aesthetics,
it also offers the reader in depth analyses of the writers in
question.
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