Mute Speech: Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics (New Directions in Critical Theory)
Ranciere is refreshingly unorthdox in unearthing examples of 'mute speech' not from modernism, but from relatively prosaic realist and naturalist novels.(Times Literary Supplement)Although the text does not lend itself to quick, light-hearted reading, it does reward thoughtful consideration. The tensions, paradoxes, and contradictions that characterize poetics and aesthetics are given space to move in this text(Jerilyn SambrookeChurch and Postmodern Culture)An excellent English translation of Jacques Ranciere's study of literary style...(Edmund CampionThe European Legacy)