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Author | : T. J. Boynton |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438481829 |
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Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold's The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.
Author | : Michael Y. Bennett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2015-08-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137410930 |
Download Oscar Wilde's Society Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.
Author | : Elizabeth Avery Meriwether |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : United States |
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Download Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alex J. Wood |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501748904 |
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Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.
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Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 138 |
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ISBN | : 9781422376089 |
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Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Download Religious Despotism in Primitive Methodism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Keane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-05-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674246691 |
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An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them. Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of government based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents. Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old term “despotism” to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other’s resources while breeding global anxieties and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. Like Montesquieu in the eighteenth century, Keane stresses the willing complicity of comfortable citizens in all these trends. And, like Montesquieu, he worries that the practices of despotism are closer to home than we care to admit.
Author | : James Spong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Download The Hero of the Desert; Or, Facts More Wonderful Than Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Alfred Emanuel Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1919 |
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Author | : Hassan Ghazi Moradi |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-02-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1480933821 |
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Despotism in Iran Translated by M. Reza Abrishamchian Written by Hassan Ghazi To realize just why it is necessary to understand despotism in Iran you only have to remember that despotism has a 2500 year history. To believe that it can be quickly abolished is nothing but a naïve dream. In Despotism in Iran the “how” of despotic rule is dissected, rather than the “why.” The “why” is related to the history of Iran and is not a concern in our time. In modern times there is no historical necessity for this type of government to rely on. Many of the assertions in Despotism in Iran apply to other nations and countries with similar backgrounds who have suffered or currently suffer under despotic regimes.