{"product_id":"9781844672066-the-emergence-of-social-space-rimbaud-and-the-paris-commune","title":"Ross Kristin - The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: The 1870s in France Rimbaud's moment and the subject of this book is a decade virtually ignored in most standard histories in France. Yet it was the moment of two significant spatial events: France's expansion on a global scale and in the spring of 1871, the brief existence on the Paris Commune the construction of the revolutionary urban space. Arguing that space as a social fact is always political and strategic Kristin Ross has written a book that is at once a history and geography of the Commune's anarchist culture its political language and social relations its values strategies and stances. Central to her analysis of the Commune as a social space and oppositional culture is a close textual reading of Arthur Rimabaud's poetry. His poems a common thread running through the book are one set of documents among many in Ross's recreation of the Communard experience. Rimbaud Paul Lafargue and the social geographer lis e Reclus serve as emblematic figures moving within and on the periphery of the Commune; in their resistance to the logic and economy of the capitalist conception of work in their challenge to work itself as a term of identity all three posed a threat to the existing order. Ross looks at these and other emancipatory notions as aspects of Communard life each with an analogous strategy in Rimbaud's poetry. Applying contemporary theory to a wealth of little - known archival material she has written a fresh persuasive and original book.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Emergence Of Social Space Rimbaud And The Paris Commune\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Ross Kristin\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Verso Books\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781844672066\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 190 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/17\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Radical Thinkers\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Literary Studies: Poetry \u0026amp; Poets","brand":"Ross Kristin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49625762398513,"sku":"IN-G-9781844672066","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781844672066_842e701b-1102-4d31-abee-cb0e373077f7.jpg?v=1724947916","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781844672066-the-emergence-of-social-space-rimbaud-and-the-paris-commune","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}