Writing revolution : : representation, rhetoric, and revolutionary politics / / by Sheila Delany.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 268
• VerfasserIn: Delany, Sheila,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 268.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

"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 Mare´chal, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Political style/political stylistics -- Marxist medievalists : a tradition -- Red Rosa : bread and roses -- Politics of the signified in Bertolt Brecht's The Measures Taken -- Women, culture, revolution : Boris Lavrenov's "The forty-first" -- Anti-saints : a revolutionary's legendary -- St. Genevieve in the revolution : Sylvain Marechal's counter-history -- The woman priest : obsession, cross-dressing, and Canada in an eighteenth-century French novella -- An atheist reads the Bible in revolutionary France -- Bible, Jews, revolution.