Genealogy and LiteratureLee Quinby Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society. The authors explore the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, the links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation. Through wide-ranging investigations of writing from England, France, Nigeria, Peru, Japan, and the United States, they reinvigorate the study of literature as a means of understanding the complexities of everyday experience. Contributors: Claudette Kemper Columbus, Lennard J. Davis, Simon During, Michel Foucault, Ellen J. Goldner, Tom Hayes, Kate Mehuron, Donald Mengay, Imafedia Okhamafe, Lee Quinby, Jose David Saldivar, and Malini Johar Schueller. |
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... Social structure in literature . 2. Canon ( Literature ) I. Quinby , Lee , 1946– PN56.S564G46 1995 809 - dc20 95-739 The University of Minnesota is an equal - opportunity educator and employer . For my sons , Michael Miller and Paul ...
... Social structure in literature . 2. Canon ( Literature ) I. Quinby , Lee , 1946– PN56.S564G46 1995 809 - dc20 95-739 The University of Minnesota is an equal - opportunity educator and employer . For my sons , Michael Miller and Paul ...
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... social change . This book is an effort to show genealogical analysis at work in the de- sacralization of literature . For upholders of literary tradition , desacralization might sound a bit like taking not only the lamb but also the ...
... social change . This book is an effort to show genealogical analysis at work in the de- sacralization of literature . For upholders of literary tradition , desacralization might sound a bit like taking not only the lamb but also the ...
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... social change . In this sense , desacralization works in coalition with other critical meth- ods that avoid and challenge claims of teleological and unified meaning , joining forces with deconstruction , carnivalization , and ...
... social change . In this sense , desacralization works in coalition with other critical meth- ods that avoid and challenge claims of teleological and unified meaning , joining forces with deconstruction , carnivalization , and ...
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... social class , education , travel , readings , diaries , letters , as well as newspaper coverage and films of the time . These are the materials of a given author's processes of subjection and subjectification . Investigating them ...
... social class , education , travel , readings , diaries , letters , as well as newspaper coverage and films of the time . These are the materials of a given author's processes of subjection and subjectification . Investigating them ...
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... social inequities were structured through the emergence of the category of deaf- ness . Finally , he offers new ways to think about literature as , literally and of- ten thematically , an incorporation of sign language . Chapter 3 turns ...
... social inequities were structured through the emergence of the category of deaf- ness . Finally , he offers new ways to think about literature as , literally and of- ten thematically , an incorporation of sign language . Chapter 3 turns ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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