Jane Austen and the Dialectic of Misrecognition

Author : Wing-chi Ki

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 22 March 2005

ISBN : 9783631531938

Price : €90.85

Description

The objective of this book is to present a dialectical framework within which to reread Jane Austens novels and to counter the critical dichotomy between a `conservative Jane (proposed by the containment school of critics) and a `radical Austen (proposed by the subversive school of critics). It aims at providing a framework that is flexible enough to explain why the two schools are inadequate, but rigorous enough to shed new light on Austens complex vision of epistemological enlightenment - namely, her insistence on the `positive recognition, the `negative cognition, and the `cynical misrecognition as essential moments in the development of the subject. The author argues that Austens `dialectics of recognition point neither towards docile conformism nor revolutionary struggle, but an on-going spirit of critique in the midst of misrecognition.

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