EAN: 9783110709773

POWER AND LITERATURE MIMESIS BD71 - FLORIN OP...

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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