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

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Autor: Sbriglia, Russell
Editor: Duke University Press
Colección: [sic] Series
ISBN: 9780822363033
eISBN Pdf: 9780822373384
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2017
Mes: Febrero
Páginas: 344
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

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

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Russell Sbriglia, Introduction: Did Somebody Say Žižek and Literature?
Part I. Theory
- 1. Anna Kornbluh, Reading the Real: Žižek’s Literary Materialism
- 2. Shawn Alfrey, Looking Awry: Žižek’s Ridiculous Sublime
- 3. Todd McGowan, The Bankruptcy of Historicism: Introducing Disruption into Literary Studies
- 4. Russell Sbriglia, The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish
- 5. Jamil Khader, Concrete Universality and the End of Revolutionary Politics: A Žižekian Approach to Postcolonial Women’s Writings
- 6. Andrew Hageman, A Robot Runs through It: Žižek and Ecocriticism
Part II. Interpretation
- 7. Geoff Boucher, Shakespeare after Žižek: Social Antagonism and Ideological Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice
- 8. Louis-Paul Willis, Beyond Symbolic Authority: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the Aesthetics of the Real
- 9. Daniel Beaumont, Wake-Up Call: Žižek, Burroughs, and Fantasy in the Sleeper Awakened Plot
- 10. Paul Megna, Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
- 11. Slavoj Žižek, The Minimal Event: Subjective Destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett
Contributors
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