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Figuring the political in nineteenth-century American literatures: A conceptual inquiry.

机译:在十九世纪的美国文学中探讨政治:概念研究。

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This dissertation examines a tendency in contemporary American literary criticism to read nineteenth-century American literatures in terms of cultural belonging and agency. What goes under-remarked in such a tendency, this dissertation argues, is the exclusive, violent nature of "the political" as such, in particular its liberal-democratic variety. In order to return the political and its effects to the forefront of nineteenth-century literary studies, this dissertation has organized itself around four important politico-philosophical concepts: subject, citizen, sovereignty, and community. By interrogating these concepts, this dissertation shows how together they can be said to saturate today's understanding of what the political is. This interrogation is aided by close-readings of texts by key figures in nineteenth-century American literature---Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, John C. Calhoun, and others---in tension with these concepts. The effect of these readings is the development of an alternative vocabulary and approach to thinking about the political in literature in general and nineteenth-century American literature in particular. Key terms to emerge as part of this alternative vocabulary include finitude, the unsacrificeable, political morality or the moral contract, immanence, and decision.
机译:本论文从文化归属和代理的角度考察了当代美国文学批评中一种阅读十九世纪美国文学的趋势。本文认为,在这种趋势中被忽视的是“政治”本身的排他性,暴力性质,尤其是其自由民主的形式。为了使政治及其影响返回到19世纪文学研究的最前沿,本文围绕四个重要的政治哲学概念进行了组织:主题,公民,主权和社区。通过审视这些概念,本论文说明了如何将它们说成是饱和的,从而使当今对政治意义的理解更加饱和。在这些概念的紧张关系下,这种审问得益于十九世纪美国文学中的关键人物对文本的仔细阅读,这些文学人物是纳撒尼尔·霍索恩(Nathanial Hawthorne),赫尔曼·梅尔维尔(Herman Melville),玛丽亚·安帕罗·鲁伊斯·德伯顿(Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton),约翰·C·卡尔霍恩(John C. Calhoun)等。这些读物的作用是发展了另一种词汇和方法来思考一般文学尤其是19世纪美国文学中的政治。作为替代词汇的一部分出现的关键术语包括有限性,无法牺牲的政治道德或道德契约,内在性和决定性。

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  • 作者

    Deines, Timothy J.;

  • 作者单位

    Michigan State University.;

  • 授予单位 Michigan State University.;
  • 学科 American Studies.; Philosophy.; Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2006
  • 页码 268 p.
  • 总页数 268
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 哲学理论;
  • 关键词

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