Delight and Revolution
Literary Studies, Aesthetics and Ideology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8891924 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyn Mccredden (0000-0003-3956-0964, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.4b9d92e149 |
| OpenAlex | W162446254 |
| Language | EN |
This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the desire for literature to align itself with political/ ideological positions. Well before Trotsky's Revolution and Literature, and stretching back to Plato's famous diatribe against the danger of poets in Book X of The Republic, critics have discoursed variously on the relationship of literature and ideology; on the political springs of art; on politics' debt to artists; or the subversive effects of art; or on art as labour. In 2012, French cultural theorist Jacques Ranciere's The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible continues the application of his concept of 'dissensus', arguing for the politically transformative effects of art, art's 'thinking the unthinkable
Aesthetics · Ideology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |