Full Description
Revolutionary and writer: how do they fit together in one person's work? Using literary texts from French, German, Russian and American pro-revolutionary writers, Sheila Delany examines the synergy of politics and rhetoric, art and social commitment. The writers she considers gave voice to the hopes of their time. Some led the events in person as well as through their writing; others worked to build a movement. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Mao, Sylvain Maréchal, Boris Lavrenov, Bertolt Brecht and others are here: consummate rhetoricians all, not necessarily on the same page politically but for the revolutions of their day.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Political Style/Political Stylistics
2 Marxist Medievalists A Tradition
3 Red Rosa Bread and Roses
4 Politics of the Signified in Bertolt Brecht's The Measures Taken
5 Women, Culture, and Revolution in Russia Boris Lavrenov's "The Forty-First"
6 Anti-saints A Revolutionary's Legendary
7 St. Genevieve in the Revolution Sylvain Maréchal's Counter-History
8 The Woman Priest Obsession, Cross-Dressing, and Canada in an Eighteenth-Century French Novella
9 An Atheist Reads the Bible in Revolutionary France
10 Bible, Jews, Revolution
Index
