scholarly journals Author, text and cultural meaning: Vijay Mishra's Salman Rushdie and the genesis of secrecy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110469
Author(s):  
Karina Aveyard
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts

Vijay Mishra's meticulous analysis of the Rushdie Emory Archive - Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy - is one of the most significant paperbacks to have been released in humanities publishing in 2021 (originally published in hardback in 2019). In one sense this book might be understood as a literary project, one that enriches understanding of the Rushdie's published works through the perspectives gained from close reading and detailed cross-referencing of Emory's extensive collection of the author's personal papers, unpublished manuscripts, digital materials and ephemera. However, to categorise The Genesis of Secrecy simply in terms of its literary credentials would be to overlook its conceptual and methodological value to wider areas of culture and media research. With this broader frame in mind, this review essay considers the book from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Demystifying Magical Realism: A Close Reading of Quichotte

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-173
Author(s):  
Muthunagai P. ◽  
◽  
Marie Josephine Aruna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Innovative Techniques

Magical Realism is a genre that brings in together two completely different dimensions of study, namely realism and fantastic imagination (magic). There is always an air of eerie complexity around the genre due to the confluence of such contradictions. Salman Rushdie is one of the most important Indian Diaspora writers prominently known for the triumphant utilization of this genre through innovative techniques in his work. Some of his most famous literary productions of this genre are The Midnight’s children, Shame, etc., This present paper takes Rushdie’s (2019) recent blockbuster publication Quichotte under study, and scrutinizes it from a hermeneutical point of view. It uses the principles theorized by W. B. Frais (2004) in her book Ordinary Enchantments and attempts to analyse the book under the derived perspective. This brief analysis underscores the hidden elements that are unanimously typical of all Magical Realist texts with reference to Quichottein and endeavours to demystify it.

Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793–1796, John Barrell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-208
Author(s):  
Danny Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

Abstract This review essay has two divisions. In its first division it sets out a brief overview of recent Marxist research in the field of ‘Romanticism’, identifying two major lines of inquiry. On the one hand, the attempt to expand our sense of what might constitute a ruthless critique of social relations; on the other, an attempt to develop a materialist account of aesthetic disengagement. This first division concludes with an extended summary of John Barrell’s account of the treason trials of the middle 1790s, as set out in his book Imagining the King’s Death. It argues that Barrell’s book is the most significant recent work belonging to the second line of inquiry. In its second division the review responds to Barrell’s concluding discussion, in which the aesthetic consequences of the treason trials are established by means of a close reading of some of the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The division finishes with some more general remarks on the subject of a materialist aesthetics of disengagement.

scholarly journals Critical theory of communication as critical sociology of critique in the age of digital capitalism: A response to Jan Løhmann Stephensen's review essay on Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Christian Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Media Research

This essay is a reflection on Jan Løhmann Stephensen’s review essay on my book Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media (Conjunctions, Vol. 2, No. 2). It contrasts creativity and social production in Marx’s theory, clarifies my relationship to Boltanski and Chiapello’s approach, reflects on the influence of humanist Marxism on my thought, and argues for grounding media/communication studies and digital media research in critical theory, understood as a critical sociology of critique that combines social theory, empirical social research and ethics.

The Democratic Constitution: Butler and Posner on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Adjudication

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-140
Author(s):  
Seth Vannatta
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Constitutional Interpretation ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Judicial Supremacy ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Democratic Experimentalism ◽  
Philosophical Pragmatism ◽  
Democratic Constitution

In this review essay, I offer a summary of Brian E. Butler’s The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and Interpretation. Butler’s democratic experimentalism offers the thesis that democracy needs to be protected democratically rather than by relying on the judicial supremacy over constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court. Butler illustrates what democratic experimentalism looks like through a close reading of key cases showing the virtues of an on-going, open-ended, empirical, fallibilist, and collaborative approach to constitutional interpretation against rival formalist and exclusionary theories. Butler relies on Richard Posner’s iconoclastic empirical approach to adjudication in advancing his thesis. However, Posner is skeptical of the Deweyan democracy Butler deploys to illustrate the democratic constitution. Further, Posner dismisses the philosophical pragmatism of Peirce and Dewey that Butler uses to ground his theory. Because of Butler’s reliance on Posner’s judicial practice and his side-stepping of Posner’s views on democracy and philosophical pragmatism, I ask how Butler’s proposal stands in relation to the ways it departs from Posner’s theory, if not his practice.

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