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Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj iek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of iek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how iek'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 iekian 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 iek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask iek affirms iek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of iekian criticism.
Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj iek

Über den Autor

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Did Somebody Say iek and Literature? / Russell Sbriglia 1
Part I. Theory
1. Reading the Real: iek's Literary Materialism / Anna Kornbluh 35
2. Looking Awry: iek'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 iekian Approach to Postcolonial Women's Writings / Jamil Khader 137
6. A Robot Runs through It: iek and Ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman 169
Part II. Interpretation
7. Shakespeare after iek: 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: iek, 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 iek 290
Contributors 317
Index 321

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822363187
ISBN-10:	0822363186
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Russell Sbriglia
Redaktion:	Sbriglia, Russell
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Russell Sbriglia
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.03.2017
Gewicht:	0,502 kg