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1 online resource (xxiii, 227 pages) |
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Introduction: The Beggar and the Promised Land of Cannibalism ix -- Poverty and Power -- Hannah Arendt and the Language of Compassion -- Impoverished Language -- The Poor and the Worker -- Relating to the Poor -- The Untimely Beggar -- A New Kind of Power -- A Modern Tradition -- 1 Impoverished Power 1 -- The Marginality of the Poor -- Heidegger Defines Power -- Amputated Power -- Logos and the Work -- Marx and the Accumulation of Misery -- Pauperism -- The Disabled Worker -- The Unnameable Proletariat -- Disciplinary Power -- Biopower -- 2 Let's Get Beat Up by the Poor! 24 -- Infamy -- The Crowd's Uncanny Presence -- Bored Community in The Flowers of Evil -- "This Crazy Energy" -- Baudelaire's Question: "What to Do?" -- Baudelaire's Answer: "Let's Beat Up the Poor!" -- Augury and Creation -- Beggarly Authority -- Submitting to the Poor -- 3 Poetic Rebellion in Mallarme 46 -- An Ascetic Poet -- Communication and Currency -- Privative Concepts -- Giving Alms -- The End of the Poem and a New Form of Poetry -- The Rhyming Cutlass -- A Virtual Renegade -- The Impoverished Throw of the Dice -- 4 The Transvaluation of Poverty 71 -- Asceticism and Art -- Difference and Language -- Zarathustra's Shame -- The Voluntary Beggar -- The Richest Poverty in the Dionysus Dithyrambs -- The Will to Deceive -- 5 Rilke and the Aestheticization of Poverty 95 -- Rilke as Reader -- "The Book of Poverty and Death" -- Without Qualities -- From Metaphor to Simile -- A Great LIKE-Poet -- Losing Mastery -- Critiques of Asceticism -- Poverty's Luster -- 6 An Outcast Community 116 -- Malte's Calm, Malte's Vehemence -- A Sign Only Outcasts Would Recognize -- Being-in-the-World -- Being-With -- Being-Written -- There Is No Choice, No Refusal -- Love -- Facelessness and Whatever Being -- St. Francis -- Malte's Indifferent Writing -- Rilke's Untimely Modernity -- 7 Exposed Interiors and the Poverty of Experience 143 -- Barbarians -- Aura's Last Refuge -- Glass Architecture -- Habit Production in Scheerbart and Brecht -- Used and Usable Man -- Quotable Poetry for City Dwellers -- Brecht and Benveniste -- Hooligans and a New Humanity -- In Transit -- James Ensor, the Destructive Character, and the Obstinate Beggar |
| Summary |
Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin's final texts in the 1930s, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. In doing so, Patrick Greaney offers significant insights into modernity's intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-218) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Poverty in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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European literature
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Poverty in literature
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Power (Social sciences) in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816653911 |
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0816653917 |
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