Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek

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AvRussell Sbriglia

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Žižekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Žižek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek affirms Žižek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Žižekian criticism.Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Žižek

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-03-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:[sic] Series
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822363187

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Russell Sbriglia is Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University.

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"A truly delightful collection of essays, bursting with fresh and genuinely interesting ideas. From the first to the last essay Zizek proves to be an unfailing source of inspiration. Rather than taking literature as the object of study, the essays-following Zizek in this approach-take it as the object with the help of which they think about various important topics and concepts. The result is a most powerful and compelling read." -- Alenka Zupancic, author of Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan "This superb collection of essays is testimony not only to the fact that Slavoj Zizek is the most profoundly original critical theorist of our time, but also to the enormously productive influence he has had on a new generation of literary critics. Beyond the sterile opposition between the so-called 'new historicism' and old 'high theory,' Zizek's thinking opens up new possibilities of theoretically informed reading, not only for the letter, but more importantly, we might say, for its Joycean 'litter,' the real." -- Kenneth Reinhard, coauthor of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Did Somebody Say Žižek and Literature? / Russell Sbriglia 1Part I. Theory1. Reading the Real: Žižek's Literary Materialism / Anna Kornbluh 352. Looking Awry: Žižek's Ridiculous Sublime / Shawn Alfrey 623. The Bankruptcy of Historicism: Introducing Disruption into Literary Studies / Todd McGowan 894. The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish / Russell Sbriglia 1075. Concrete Universality and the End of Revolutionary Politics: A Žižekian Approach to Postcolonial Women's Writings / Jamil Khader 1376. A Robot Runs through It: Žižek and Ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman 169Part II. Interpretation7. Shakespeare after Žižek: Social Antagonism and Ideological Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice / Geoff Boucher 1958. Beyond Symbolic Authority: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the Aesthetics of the Real / Louis-Paul Willis 2229. Wake-Up Call: Žižek, Burroughs, and Fantasy in the Sleeper Awakened Plot / Daniel Beaumont 24510. Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Paul Megna 26711. The Minimal Event: Subjective Destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett / Slavoj Žižek 290Contributors 317Index 321