Author: Ken Hirschkop File Type: pdf Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Russell, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Cassirer, Shklovskii, the Russian Futurists, Ogden and Richards, Sorel, Gramsci, and others, it shows how European intellectuals came to invest language with extraordinary force, at a time when the social and political order of the continent was itself in question. Byexamining linguistic turns in concert rather than in isolation, the volume changes the way we see themno longer simply as moves in individual disciplines, but as elements of a larger constellation, held together by common concerns and anxieties. In a series of detailed readings, the volume reveals how eachlinguistic turn invested language as such with powers that could redeem not just individual disciplines but Europe itself. It shows how, in the hands of different writers, language becomes a model of social and political order, a tool guaranteeing analytical precision, a vehicle of dynamic change, a storehouse of mythical collective energy, a template for civil society, and an image of justice itself. By detailing the force linguistic turns attribute to language, and the way in which theycontrast language as such with actual language, the volume dissects the investments made in words and sentences and the visions behind them. The constellation of linguistic turns is explored as an intellectual event in its own right and as the pursuit of social theory by other means.

Author: Paula R. Backscheider File Type: pdf ReviewA team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended. CHOICEEditors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography. ECFThe Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures. The Journalfor Early Modern Cultural StudiesBook DescriptionA Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also contemporaneous cultural texts from which the eighteenth-century novel emerged. The volume is divided into three parts exploring Formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel Its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period Its lasting legacy. As a whole, the volume explores issues central to the study of the novel in todays theoretical climate, including themes such as globalization, national identity, sexuality, and commerce. This organization allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring more traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the development of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon. A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. ullAn up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novelllFurnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contextllForegrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first centuryllExplores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacyllCovers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and sciencellConsiders both canonical and non-canonical literaturelulReviewA team of two dozen prominent scholars ... .Here report on the state of the art in 18th century novel studies. Nearly all the work is cutting edge, and almost every page challenges conventional wisdom ... .Specialists in the early novel will find this wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated work provocative. Highly recommended. CHOICEEditors Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia have assembled an impressive collection of authors .Visiting or revisiting a complex cultural topography. ECFThe Variety of texts treated in this volume is rich, unapologetic, and one of its real pleasures. The Journalfor Early Modern Cultural StudiesBook DescriptionA Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture provides an up-to-date resource for the study of this subject, foregrounding those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. It considers not only the canonical literature of the period, but also contemporaneous cultural texts from which the eighteenth-century novel emerged. The volume is divided into three parts exploring Formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel Its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period Its lasting legacy. As a whole, the volume explores issues central to the study of the novel in todays theoretical climate, including themes such as globalization, national identity, sexuality, and commerce. This organization allows the Companion to capitalize on cutting-edge scholarship without obscuring more traditional parameters for the study of the eighteenth-century novel, such as narrative authority, print culture, and the development of the novel as a pan-European phenomenon.