{"product_id":"art-theory-revolution-the-turn-to-generality-in-contemporary-literature-hardcover","title":"Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMitchum Huehls\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan form be political? Do specific aesthetic and literary forms necessarily point us toward a progressive or reactionary politics? Artists, authors, and critics like to imagine so, but what happens when they lose control of the politics of their forms? In \u003ci\u003eArt, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, Mitchum Huehls argues that art's interest in revolution did not end with the twentieth century, as some critics would have it, but rather that the relationship between literary forms and politics has been severed, resulting in a twenty-first century investment in forms of generality such as genre, gesture, constructivism, and abstraction. Focusing on three particular domains (art, theory, and revolution) in which the relationship between form and politics has collapsed, Huehls shows how twenty-first-century US fiction writers such as Chris Kraus, Percival Everett, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rachel Kushner, Salvador Plascencia, and Sheila Heti are turning to forms of generality that lead us toward a more modest, ad hoc, context-dependent way to think about the politics of form. The result is the first major study of generality in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitchum Huehls is Associate Professor in the Department of English at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Critique: Twenty-First Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor (with Rachel Greenwald Smith) of \u003ci\u003eNeoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 198\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703737872691,"sku":"9780814215241","price":132.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VjZBd3ljWHZoalFOSVBJbmk0UDNhdz09.webp?v=1763337646","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/art-theory-revolution-the-turn-to-generality-in-contemporary-literature-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}