Foucault and Fiction

The Experience Book

AvTimothy O'Leary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on "Moby-Dick", "Pierre" and "Benito Cereno") in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies. In "Melville, Mapping and Globalization", Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's distinct literary form enabled his critique of the dominant national narrative of his own time and proleptically undermined the national literary tradition of American Studies a century later. Melville's hypercanonical status in the United States makes his work all the more crucial for understanding the role of literature in a post-American epoch.Offering bold new interpretations and theoretical juxtapositions, Tally presents a postnational Melville, well suited to establishing new approaches to American and world literature in the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-08-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826495952

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Timothy O'Leary is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He has spent several years working in the Foucault Archives and has published on Foucault, aesthetics and literature.

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"An insightful exegesis of an ethics of fiction, an art that transforms readers' experience of the world by daring them to think differently... Foucault and Fiction demonstrates from the outset that O'Leary is deeply familiar with Foucault's work on literature, experience and ethics, and perceptively links the transformative effects of literature with ethical practices of the self... I highly recommend this book for readers interested in the work of Michel Foucault, literature theory and/or Irish literature. But I also endorse this book for those fascinated with how reading catalyses a ?transformative? experience, an experience that can change your world in one ‚shocking or arresting? moment or gradually, through the passing of time. Foucault and Fiction is pleasurable to read and astute in its use of philosophy, literature theory and reception studies. It is an integral text for anyone struggling to reconcile how art, ethics and politics merge in the transformative potential of literature"

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; 1. Literature, experience, and ethics; 2. The ungoverned tongue: Seamus Heaney; 3. Foucault's turn from literature; 4. Language, culture, and confusion: Brian Friel; 5. Foucault's concept of experience; 6. Re-making experience: James Joyce; 7. Experimental subjects: Swift and Beckett; 8. Ethics and fiction; Bibliography; Index.