Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity / / Simon During

• Autore: During Simon <1950-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933553
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism and literature; Literature, Modern - History and criticism; Capitalism - Social aspects - History; Culture - Study and teaching
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Modernizing the English literary field; Chapter 1 Church, state, and modernization: Literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688; Chapter 2 Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace; Chapter 3 Interesting: The politics of the sympathetic imagination; Part II Towards endgame capitalism Literature, theory, culture; Chapter 4 World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object; Chapter 5 Socialist ends: The emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain ; Chapter 6 Completing secularism: The mundane in the neo-liberal eraChapter 7 Refusing capitalism?: Theory and cultural studies after 1968; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exit capitalism
• ISBN: 1-135-27868-7; 1-135-27869-5; 1-282-28333-2; 9786612283338; 0-203-87264-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777908903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II