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Auteur(s) : Moretti, Franco (1950-....). Auteur du texte  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : The bourgeois [Texte imprimé] : between history and literature / Franco Moretti

Publication : London : Verso, 2014

Description matérielle : xi-203 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois 'opinions and ideals' -- what are they?" Thus begins Franco Moretti's study of the bourgeois in modern European literature -- a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti's gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords -- "useful" and "earnest," "efficiency," "influence," "comfort," "roba"--And of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the "working master" of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the "national malformations" of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen's twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance

Sujet(s) : Bourgeoisie -- Dans la littérature  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet Littérature européenne -- Thèmes, motifs  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  809.933 55 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Thèmes sociaux  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781781680858. - ISBN 178168085X. - ISBN 9781781683040. - ISBN 1781683042. - ISBN 9781781683057 (erroné) (US eISBN). - ISBN 9781781684856 (erroné) (UK eISBN)

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Notice n° :  FRBNF45662792 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : Introduction: Concepts and contradictions.. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class' -- ; Dissonances -- ; Bourgeoisie, middle class -- ; Between history and literature -- ; Abstract hero -- ; Prose and keywords : preliminary remarks -- ; 'The bourgeois is lost ... ' -- ; A working master.. Adventure, enterprise, Fortuna -- ; 'This will testify for me that I was not idle' -- ; Keywords I : 'Useful' -- ; Keywords II : 'Efficiency' -- ; Keywords III : 'Comfort' -- ; Prose I : 'The rhythm of continuity' -- ; Prose II : 'We have discovered the productivity of the spirit ... ' -- ; Serious century.. Keywords IV : 'Serious' -- ; Fillers -- ; Rationalization -- ; Prose III : Reality principle -- ; Description, conservatism, Realpolitik -- ; Prose IV : 'A transposition of the objective into the subjective' -- ; Fog.. Naked, shameless, and direct ; 'Behind the veil' -- ; The gothic, un déjà-là -- ; The gentleman -- ; Keywords V : 'Influence' -- ; Prose V : Victorian adjectives -- ; Keywords VI : 'Earnest' -- ; 'Who loves not knowledge?' -- ; Prose VI : Fog -- ; 'National malformations': Metamorphoses in the semi-periphery.. Balzac, Machado, and money -- ; Keywords VII : 'Roba' -- ; Persistence of the Old Regime I : The doll -- ; Persistence of the Old Regime II : Torquemada -- ; 'There's arithmetic for you!' -- ; Ibsen and the spirit of capitalism.. The grey area -- ; 'Signs against signs' -- ; Bourgeois prose, capitalist poetry.