The Emergence of Social Space

Zusatztext “A fascinating cultural history of the Commune.” —Tariq Ali “A rare example of cultural studies done with zest as well as depth.” — New Statesman & Society Informationen zum Autor Kristin Ross was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. She attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and received a PhD in French Literature from Yale in 1981. She is the author of a number of books on modern French politics and culture, all of which have been widely translated: The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Minnesota, 1988; Verso, 2008); Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT, 1995); May 68 and its Afterlives (Chicago, 2002), and Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015). She has also translated works by Jacques Rancière and by the militant collective, Mauvaise Troupe. She lives in Stone Ridge, New York and Paris. Terry Eagleton is Professor of Cultural Theory and John Rylands Fellow, University of Manchester. His other books include Ideology ; The Function of Criticism ; Heathcliff and the Great Hunger ; Against the Grain ; Walter Benjamin ; and Criticism and Ideology , all from Verso. Klappentext A thrilling rise through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution. Zusammenfassung A ride through the literature of Rimbaud in a France in the throes of revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Ross
• Assisted by: Terry Eagleton (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2008
• EAN: 9781844672066
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-206-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 03
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets