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Anonymous Life : Romanticism and Dispossession by Jacques Khalip (2008, Hardcover)

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Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Khalip, Jacques [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804758409

ISBN-139780804758406

eBay Product ID (ePID)66249946

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAnonymous Life : Romanticism and Dispossession

Publication Year2008

SubjectSemiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorJacques Khalip

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width7.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-018554

Reviews"Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism.Anonymous Lifeis commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." -Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, "Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various--and variously productive--forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time." --Forest Pyle, University of Oregon, "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." —Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism.Anonymous Lifeis commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." --Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, "Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various—and variously productive—forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time." —Forest Pyle, University of Oregon, "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." -Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, "Jacques Khalip is quite brilliant in the way he explains and defines the second-generation "negation" of earlier Romantic egoism. Anonymous Life is commanding and convincing, a most valuable contribution to Romantic literary studies and theoretical criticism." --Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona, "Khalip explores many of the Romantic and pre-Romantic figures we hold most responsible for the cultivation and deployment of an expressive, confessional self in order to reveal, often in the very texts that would confirm this received idea, the work of a dispossession that results in various-and variously productive-forms of anonymity. Nuanced and supple in its deployment of contemporary criticism and theory, this is as original and exciting a book in Romantic studies as I have encountered in some time." -Forest Pyle, University of Oregon

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal820.9

SynopsisRomanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and dispossessed, one whose authority is irreducible to that of an easily recognizable, psychologized persona. In Anonymous Life , Khalip goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on transparency and self-disclosure. He explores how romantic subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails to prove its authenticity and coherence., In Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession , Khalip approaches romantic subjectivity's fascination with anonymity as an ethics of engaged withdrawal or strategic reticence, arguing that anonymity is an alternative model of being that resists the requirement to inhabit a social category and remains open to change and re-description.

LC Classification NumberPR447