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Examines the importance of Leo Bersani's work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.

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Author:   Mikko Tuhkanen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781438454108

ISBN 10:   1438454104
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   02 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond Mikko Tuhkanen Part I: Queer 1. Bersani on Location Heather Love 2. Embarrassment and the Forms of Redemption David Kurnick 3. Queer Betrayals Jack Halbstam Part II: Psychoanalytic 4. Cinema a tergo: Shooting in Elephant Ellis Hanson 5. Reading Freud: Bersani and Lacan James Penney 6. Addressing Oneself: Bersani and the Form/Fold of Self-Relation Patrick ffrench 7. Monadological Psychoanalysis: Bersani, Laplanche, Beckett Mikko Tuhkanen Part III: Aesthetic 8. Is the Rectangle a Grave? Michael D. Snediker 9. Proust, Shattering: Aesthetic Subjects and Metonymies of Desire E. L. McCallum 10. A Future for Henry James David McWhirter 11. Extreme Style: Firbank, Faulkner, and Perspectives on Modern Traditions Kevin Ohi Part IV: Interview 12. Rigorously Speculating: An Interview with Leo Bersani Mikko Tuhkanen Contributors Index

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Leo Bersani is filled with erudite, beautifully written, provocative essays that make abundantly clear not only the trajectory and importance of Bersani's work, but the many ideas that work enables. - Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories These stellar essays offer up important and unsettling insights into one of our most fearless thinkers. Thanks to this collection's extensive engagements with his body of knowledge, scholars are now able to approach Leo Bersani's prose-in all of its shattering beauty-in a dazzling new light. - Scott Herring, author of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

"""Leo Bersani is filled with erudite, beautifully written, provocative essays that make abundantly clear not only the trajectory and importance of Bersani's work, but the many ideas that work enables."" - Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories ""These stellar essays offer up important and unsettling insights into one of our most fearless thinkers. Thanks to this collection's extensive engagements with his body of knowledge, scholars are now able to approach Leo Bersani's prose-in all of its shattering beauty-in a dazzling new light."" - Scott Herring, author of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism"

Author Information

Mikko Tuhkanen is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright and the coeditor (with E. L. McCallum) of Queer Times, Queer Becomings, both also published by SUNY Press.

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