{"product_id":"adorno-and-the-architects-of-tania-roy-9780367694852","title":"Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India: Aesthetic Form after the Twentieth-century Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the postcolonial world, the claim to an emancipated national culture was bound to its aesthetic correlate, the unfolding time and experiments of the twentieth-century novel. Today, the constructs of both novel and a progressivist national project function, in all their closures, within global scales of economic disparity and violent exclusion. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is the fate of a literary canon when it is no longer capable of delineating a future - or otherwise, is bound to reproduce the failures of the past within its own inscriptions? How do we experience our current \"globalist\" moment, when lived inequities of gender, labour and ethnicity emerge in a text's inability to speak on time? When does artistic or literary failure become the measure of a work's accomplishment? And what sort of liberation is envisioned by works that refuse the imperatives of \"progress\" and \"independence\" - which \u003ci\u003eembrace\u003c\/i\u003e the appearance of obsolescence by rejecting values of artistic freedom, originality and innovation? These are some of the provocations that arise from T.W. Adorno's idea of late style for our own conjuncture - a \u003ci\u003eproperly\u003c\/i\u003e postcolonial context, in which every conceptual or expressive engagement is articulated through an awareness of eroded national promise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of literary and artistic modernity in India through Adorno's category of late-style. In striking readings of Adorno and his interlocuters, the book extends a poetics of lateness toward a speculative history of the twentieth-century novel in India. Comprised of critically neglected selections from the oeuvres of canonical writers, \u003ci\u003eAdorno\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Architects of Late Style in India\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that under conditions of advanced capitalism, logics of redundancy overtake the novel's foundational reference point in the nation to produce altered frames of thought and sensibility - and therein, a reader who might encounter, anew, the figures of an unfulfilled twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tania Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367694859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367694852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Tania Roy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070711656703,"sku":"9780367694852","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9709f214-6bfb-47c2-8a0a-9aff789ffaf4.jpg?v=1685431920","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/adorno-and-the-architects-of-tania-roy-9780367694852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}