Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 809.93355 MOR (Browse shelf) | Checked out | 16/12/2024 | 032592 |
809.933527 WAN Brief literary history of disability | 809.93353 KRI Strangers to ourselves | 809.93353 WAT Myths of modern individualism : Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe | 809.93355 MOR Bourgeois : between history and literature | 809.93356 ROS Reading modernism with machines : digital humanities and modernist literature | 809.933561 DET Future of flesh : a cultural survey of the body | 809.93358 BHA Location of culture |
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The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today' Bourgeois 'opinions and ideals''what are they'" Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature'a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti's gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords'"useful" and "earnest," "efficiency," "influence," "comfort," "roba"'and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the "working master" of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the "national malformations" of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen's twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.
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