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Author:   A. C. Facundo
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:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9781438463087

ISBN 10:   1438463081
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   02 July 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering Omniscience 1. The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited I. ""To Push"" the Drives: Sigmund Freud's Productive Speculations II. Economic Binding as the Death Drive: The Critique of Totalitarianism III. Dynamic Binding as the Life Drive: Reparative Formations 2. ""A Tempest in a Test Tube"": The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita I. Introduction II. The Weaves of Scientia Sexualis III. Parody and Psychoanalysis as a Practice of Reading IV. The Loss of Lolita, the Unbinding of Enlightenment V. Conclusion 3. ""An Ethics of Failure"": Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves I. Introduction II. What is Queer about Failure? III. Visual Literalization IV. Failure and the Reparative V. Conclusion 4. ""Kill Your Children"": Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars I. Introduction II. The Life Drive in War III. Narrative Remediation IV. Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification V. Conclusion 5. Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go I. Introduction II. Mourning Totality III. Childhood: Objects and Phantasy IV. Adolescence: Phantasy Theories V. Childhood Redux: Art and the Thinking Subject VI. Conclusion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"

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"""Armed with a full repertoire of psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid-reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any critic I've read. Reframing current critical impasses, Oscillations of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less than a new method of reading queerly."" - Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ""This book seeks to understand hermeneutic imperatives and flights from these in terms of paranoid and reparative drives (as distinct from affect). It is a bold and ambitious project, but Facundo brings to it an exceptional array of skills. I am impressed by the author's close, subtle, and very canny readings of both theoretical and literary texts and by her demonstration of the complexity, variety, and centrality of ideas and operations of paranoia and the reparative in writings from Freud to the present. Oscillations revitalizes psychoanalytic criticism in its distinctly queer relation to psychoanalysis, a relation that yields surprising and refreshing insights."" - Stephen M. Barber, coeditor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory"

Armed with a full repertoire of psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid-reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any critic I've read. Reframing current critical impasses, Oscillations of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less than a new method of reading queerly. - Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This book seeks to understand hermeneutic imperatives and flights from these in terms of paranoid and reparative drives (as distinct from affect). It is a bold and ambitious project, but Facundo brings to it an exceptional array of skills. I am impressed by the author's close, subtle, and very canny readings of both theoretical and literary texts and by her demonstration of the complexity, variety, and centrality of ideas and operations of paranoia and the reparative in writings from Freud to the present. Oscillations revitalizes psychoanalytic criticism in its distinctly queer relation to psychoanalysis, a relation that yields surprising and refreshing insights. - Stephen M. Barber, coeditor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory

Author Information

A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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