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In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo
presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a
mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the
tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the
Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist
political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical "prologue" of
1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and
1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the
factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns
from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the
inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to
a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the
play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist
conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political
and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai
January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived
Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural
moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo
overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.
In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo
presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a
mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the
tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the
Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist
political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical "prologue" of
1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and
1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the
factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns
from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the
inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to
a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the
play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist
conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political
and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai
January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived
Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural
moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo
overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.
Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a
set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the
idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings Greek,
Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly
is that the 'iambic idea' is impossible to define in absolute
terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a
vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident
in such critical terms as the 'iambic tendency' in Sappho, the
'reusing of iambi' for Roman epodes, and even the instances of
'iambic absence' in comedy and other such related forms. In the
end, what is most characteristic about the 'iambic' is its own
inherent variability.
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