Kent Puckett

Electoral Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems

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Produktbeschreibung

An intellectual history and aesthetic theory of democratic elections, this book offers a critical alternative to the ''myth of rigging.''

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009206679
• Artikelnr.: 70913585

Autorenporträt

Kent Puckett is author of Bad Form: Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2008), War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 (2017), and Narrative Theory: A Critical Introduction (2016), winner of the 2018 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, MLQ, Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture, Public Books, and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: rigging the system
2. Seeing aspects: considering some kinds of electoral realism
3. Electoral things: realism, representation, and the Victorian ballot
4. Late returns: Lewis Carroll and William Morris
5. The Impossibilists: Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Arrow
6. Conclusion: a silent majority.