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"Explores and illuminates Rancière's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism"-- Provided by publisher.

"The contemporary philosopher Jacques Rancière has become over the last two decades one of the most influential voices in literary, art historical, and film criticism. His work reexamines the divisions that have defined our understanding of modernity, such as art and politics, representation and abstraction, and literature and philosophy. Working across these divisions, he engages the historical roots of modernism in the nineteenth century, uncovering forgotten texts in the archive that trouble our notions of intellectual history. The contributors to Understanding Rancière, Understanding Modernism engage with the multiplicity of Rancière's thought through close readings of his texts, through comparative readings with other philosophers, and through an engagement with modernist works of art and literature. The final section of the volume includes an extended glossary of the most important terms used by Rancière, which will be a valuable resource for experts and students alike"-- Provided by publisher.

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

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Introduction

Patrick M. Bray, The Ohio State University, USA Part I

Conceptualizing Rancière

1. Mallarmé, politique de la sirène

Bruno Bosteels, Cornell University, USA

2. 'The Democratic Torrent': Politics of the Social in Rancière's Hatred of Democracy

Emily Apter, New York University, USA

3. Écarts du cinéma

Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA

4. Film Fables

Margaret Flinn, The Ohio State University, USA

5. Proletarian Nights

Bettina Lerner, City College CUNY, USA

6. The Ignorant Schoolmaster

Leon Sachs, University of Kentucky, USA

7. The Emancipated Spectator

Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American University of Paris, France

8. Silent Speech

Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh, USA Part II

Rancière and Aesthetics

9. Staging a conversation between Rancière and feminist theory

Tina Chanter, Kingston University London, UK

10. Reassessing Rancière and Video Art

Tim Murray, Cornell University, USA

11. Rancière and Proust

Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley

12. Rancière's critique of modernism

Alison Ross, Monash University, Australia

13. Laboring Arms and the Floating Gaze: Rancière's New Sensorium

Marina Van Zuylen, Bard College, USA

14. Rancière and Latin American Modernism

Silvia López, Carleton College, USA

15. Rancière and Virginia Woolf

Ewa Ziarek, SUNY Buffalo, USA

16. On Rancière's Opposition of Politics and Police: Meaning and Consequences

Étienne Balibar, Columbia University, USA, and Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre, France Part III

Glossary of Key Terms

Index.

Rancière, Jacques > Criticism and interpretation.

Modernism (Literature) > History and criticism.