A Future for Astyanax
Author : Leo Bersani
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231059381
Author : Leo Bersani
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231059381
Author : Leo Bersani
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1987-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520908295
The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. It imagines a literary history that must at the same time be social, economic, and legal; and it imagines a literature that, to be understood at all, must be understood both as a producer and a product of market capitalism.
Author : Andrew Franta
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421427516
In this unraveling, literature arrives at its most penetrating insights about the structure of social life.
Author : Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1623563550
For the past 60 years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko Tuhkanen seeks out the fundamental notes-the questions that we find and refind-in Bersani's extensive oeuvre across the decades. The chapters explore Bersani's engagement with psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James, Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). This first introduction to Bersani's work provides a chronological overview of his thought and details his contributions to literary studies and critical theory.
Author : Leo Bersani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226043444
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is the Rectum a Grave?”—this volume charts the inspired connections Bersani has made between sexuality, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics. Over the course of these essays, Bersani grapples with thinkers ranging from Plato to Descartes to Georg Simmel. Foucault and Freud recur as key figures, and although Foucault rejected psychoanalysis, Bersani contends that by considering his ideas alongside Freud’s, one gains a clearer understanding of human identity and how we relate to one another. For Bersani, art represents a crucial guide for conceiving new ways of connecting to the world, and so, in many of these essays, he stresses the importance of aesthetics, analyzing works by Genet, Caravaggio, Proust, Almodóvar, and Godard. Documenting over two decades in the life of one of the best minds working in the humanities today, Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays is a unique opportunity to explore the fruitful career of a formidable intellect.
Author : Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1438469675
The first book-length study of Bersanis work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences. Since his first publications in the late 1950s, Leo Bersanis work has influenced numerous scholarly fields, from studies of French modernism and realist fiction to psychoanalytic criticism and film theory. It has occasionally helped precipitate the emergence of new disciplinary fields, such as queer theory in the late 1980s. The Essentialist Villain is the first book-length study of this impressively rich oeuvre. Mikko Tuhkanen tracks the unfolding of Bersanis onto-ethics/aesthetics, paying particular attention to his persistent references to essence, a concept central to classical speculative philosophy, which has fallen into distinct disfavor since the emergence of deconstructive thought. Because of his early influencesparticularly Gilles Deleuzes philosophyBersani remains an ontologist through decades when deconstruction seems to have all but disallowed any thought of being. Tuhkanen also locates Bersanis thought amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical interlocutors, including Deleuze, Freud, Proust, Laplanche, Beckett, Baudelaire, Genet, Leibniz, and others. This very impressive book provides a full-scale assessment of Leo Bersanis half-century of thinking and writing, at the same time as it offers a reassessment of our contemporary critical landscape. It is rare that a book on a single thinker can do that, but Tuhkanen has accomplished a tremendous amount of intellectual work here. A brilliant book on a brilliant thinker. I learned a great deal from it and recommend it highly. Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Essentialist Villain offers a wonderfully original and convincing assessment of the speculative power of Leo Bersanis oeuvre. Identifying a homo-monadology at its core, Tuhkanen details the complex and shifting role sameness has played throughout. By situating him at the proper onto-aesthetic level of his thought, this study positions Bersani among the leading independent thinkers of our era. Joan Copjec, Brown University Mikko Tuhkanen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. His books include Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond; Queer Times, Queer Becomings (coedited with E. L. McCallum); and The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright, all published by SUNY Press.
Author : Roland Racevskis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838756843
Presents a theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thebaide (1664) to Phedre (1677). This study focuses on literary/theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity.
Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300246722
Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470779853
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.