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Writing Revolution: Representation, Rhetoric, and Revolutionary Politics
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Sheila Delany
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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Revolutionary and writer: how do they fit together in one person’s work? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines the synergy of politics and rhetoric, art and social commitment. The writers she considers gave voice to the hopes of their time. Some led the events in person as well as through their writing; others worked to build a movement. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao, Sylvain Maréchal, Boris Lavrenov, Bertolt Brecht and others are here: consummate rhetoricians all, not necessarily on the same page politically but for the revolutions of their day.
Author / Editor information
Sheila Delany, Ph.D. (1967) Columbia University, is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Her books and articles on medieval literature and in Jewish studies helped bring Marxian method, gender awareness, and critical theory into medieval studies.
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eBook published on:
September 20, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004684096
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Main content:
196
eBook ISBN:
9789004684096
Keywords for this book
Women's role; Communism; Bible; Saints; Satire; Style; Hagiography; Brecht; French Revolution; Russian Revolution; Marx; Trotsky; Lenin; Rosa Luxemburg; gender
Audience(s) for this book
Students at any level and general readers interested in French, German or Russian literature, left politics, modern revolutionary history, and rhetoric.
