Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville, and KafkaUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 - 224 páginas In 1922, voters in the newly created Republic of Poland democratically elected their first president, Gabriel Narutowicz. Because his supporters included a Jewish political party, an opposing faction of antisemites demanded his resignation. Within hours, bloody riots erupted in Warsaw, and within a week the president was assassinated. In the wake of these events, the radical right asserted that only "ethnic Poles" should rule the country, while the left silently capitulated to this demand. As Paul Brykczynski tells this gripping story, he explores the complex role of antisemitism, nationalism, and violence in Polish politics between the two World Wars. Though focusing on Poland, the book sheds light on the rise of the antisemitic right in Europe and beyond, and on the impact of violence on political culture and discourse. |
Contenido
Modernism Socialism | 9 |
The Radical Novel and Its Public | 40 |
Ironic Democracy | 89 |
Criticism and Social Change | 136 |
vii | 199 |
89 | 207 |
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Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in ... David Bruce Suchoff Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
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