Elliott The Microeconomic Mode

Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54751-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).