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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... alterations of the field , highlighting modes of resistance within both literature and literary criticism and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by xi Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature.
... alterations of the field , highlighting modes of resistance within both literature and literary criticism and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by xi Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature.
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Lee Quinby. and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by which sacralized literature , literary criticism , and literary theory fortify a power / knowledge formation that justifies hierarchy , commits violences in the name ...
Lee Quinby. and theory . Genealogical inquiry also exposes the means by which sacralized literature , literary criticism , and literary theory fortify a power / knowledge formation that justifies hierarchy , commits violences in the name ...
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... theory ( in regard to the theory of the subject and a theory of power , for example ) should be enough to discount that as a goal anyway.23 Despite its brevity and elliptical pronouncements , this piece provides valuable meth ...
... theory ( in regard to the theory of the subject and a theory of power , for example ) should be enough to discount that as a goal anyway.23 Despite its brevity and elliptical pronouncements , this piece provides valuable meth ...
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... theory into English school systems in the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies , indicating literature's relations with other operations of modern power . During then takes up the contributions and limitations of new his- toricism for ...
... theory into English school systems in the nineteenth and twentieth cen- turies , indicating literature's relations with other operations of modern power . During then takes up the contributions and limitations of new his- toricism for ...
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... Theory and Technology ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1992 ) . 15. Cheryl Walker has raised crucial ... Theories , Gay Theories , ed . Diana Fuss ( New York : Routledge , 1991 ) , 185-201 . 16. David Mason , " Mythical ...
... Theory and Technology ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1992 ) . 15. Cheryl Walker has raised crucial ... Theories , Gay Theories , ed . Diana Fuss ( New York : Routledge , 1991 ) , 185-201 . 16. David Mason , " Mythical ...
Contents
A Language Poised against Death | 69 |
Seeking the Limits of the Possible | 155 |
Contributors | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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