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Cultural diagnostician Ian Fleishman trains his writing on the incomprehensible wounding of language. With an elegant sensibility for the disruptions of narrative injury and structural disintegration, he scans the agony of essential literary despair after Baudelaire and Kafka. Poignant and incisive, alert to disavowed aspects of social existence, An Aesthetics of Injury comes up against Freudian theories of castration and political deficiency. The work collects a dossier of texts that are befallen by the oversignifying tendencies of inbound catastrophe. Cixous, Genet, Tarantino, Jelinek, and others are scanned for the rhetorical lesions and narrative loopholes that constitute our modernity. --Avital Ronell Aesthetics of Injury is insightful, beautifully written, and compelling. It will help shift many discussions in literary, film and feminist studies. --Kathleen Komar, author of Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation An incisive and provocative contribution to the history and theory of modern narrative since Baudelaire... Fleishman shows that the idea of an open wound as an allegoric dimension, or an 'aesthetics of injury, ' plays a vital and thus far neglected role in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. --Johannes Turk, author of Die Immunitat der Literatur

Cultural diagnostician Ian Fleishman trains his writing on the incomprehensible wounding of language. With an elegant sensibility for the disruptions of narrative injury and structural disintegration, he scans the agony of essential literary despair after Baudelaire and Kafka. Poignant and incisive, alert to disavowed aspects of social existence, An Aesthetics of Injury comes up against Freudian theories of castration and political deficiency. The work collects a dossier of texts that are befallen by the oversignifying tendencies of inbound catastrophe. Cixous, Genet, Tarantino, Jelinek, and others are scanned for the rhetorical lesions and narrative loopholes that constitute our modernity. --Avital Ronell Aesthetics of Injury is insightful, beautifully written, and compelling. It will help shift many discussions in literary, film and feminist studies. --Kathleen Komar, author of Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation An incisive and provocative contribution to the history and theory of modern narrative since Baudelaire... Fleishman shows that the idea of an open wound as an allegoric dimension, or an 'aesthetics of injury, ' plays a vital and thus far neglected role in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. --Johannes Turk, author of Die Immunitat der Literatur

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Ian Fleishman is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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