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Author:   Russell Sbriglia
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780822363187

ISBN 10:   0822363186
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   03 March 2017
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Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Did Somebody Say Žižek and Literature? / Russell Sbriglia  1 Part I. Theory 1. Reading the Real: Žižek's Literary Materialism / Anna Kornbluh  35 2. Looking Awry: Žižek's Ridiculous Sublime / Shawn Alfrey  62 3. The Bankruptcy of Historicism: Introducing Disruption into Literary Studies / Todd McGowan  89 4. The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish / Russell Sbriglia  107 5. Concrete Universality and the End of Revolutionary Politics: A Žižekian Approach to Postcolonial Women's Writings / Jamil Khader  137 6. A Robot Runs through It: Žižek and Ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman  169 Part II. Interpretation 7. Shakespeare after Žižek: Social Antagonism and Ideological Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice / Geoff Boucher  195 8. Beyond Symbolic Authority: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the Aesthetics of the Real / Louis-Paul Willis  222 9. Wake-Up Call: Žižek, Burroughs, and Fantasy in the Sleeper Awakened Plot / Daniel Beaumont  245 10. Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Paul Megna  267 11. The Minimal Event: Subjective Destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett / Slavoj Žižek  290 Contributors 317 Index 321

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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 * 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 *

A truly delightful collection of essays, bursting with fresh and genuinely interesting ideas. From the first to the last essay i ek proves to be an unfailing source of inspiration. Rather than taking literature as the object of study, the essays following i ek 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 Zupan i, author of Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

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

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