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OverviewChallenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Zizek'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 Zizekian 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 Zizek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek affirms Zizek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Zizekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Zizek Full Product DetailsAuthor: Russell SbrigliaPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Volume: 10 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780822363033ISBN 10: 0822363038 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 03 March 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 321ReviewsThis 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 Author InformationRussell Sbriglia is Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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