Microeconomic Mode - Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics

Literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. Jane Elliott analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic phenomenon, which she calls the microeconomic mode, through close readings that show how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Political Subjectivity
1. Live Models
2. Life-Interest
Part II. Sovereignty
3. Survival Games
4. Sovereign Capture
Part III. Thriving
5. Partial Fictions
6. Binary Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Jane Elliott is senior lecturer in English at King’s College London. She is the author of Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time (2008) and coeditor of Theory After “Theory” (2011).

Riassunto

Literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. Jane Elliott analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic phenomenon, which she calls the microeconomic mode, through close readings that show how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.

Testo aggiuntivo

An exciting and much-needed corrective account of contemporary political personhood.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jane Elliott
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780231174749
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17474-9
• Pagine: 248
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000