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On Pain of Speech
Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant

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Zusatztext "Al-Kassim's analysis could profitably be applied to much modernist and avant-garde writing. . . . It is already remarkably portable across decades and nations and movements. . . . This wide portability and the refreshingly readable prose of the book make On Pain of Speech an ideal text for courses on post-colonialism! Modernism! and avant-garde literatures at the advanced undergraduate level and beyond." Informationen zum Autor Dina Al-Kassim is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California! Irvine. Zusammenfassung Tracks the literary rant, an expression of provocation and resistance that imagines the power to speak in its own name where no such right is granted. This title views the rant through the lens of Michel Foucault's notion of the biopolitical subject and finds that its abject address is an essential yet overlooked feature of modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Address 1. On Being Stubborn Oscar Wilde and the Modern Type 2. "The Bar Was Not Very Gay" New Kinship and the Serious Writer's Block 3. "A Long Tirade for a Direct Interjection" Talismano Rebukes the Oriental Tale in Jacques Lacan's Séminaires Notes Bibliography Index

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Authors Dina Al-Kassim
Publisher University Of California Press
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 08.02.2010
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Fiction
 
EAN 9780520259256
ISBN 978-0-520-25925-6
Pages 304
 
Series Flashpoints > 1
Flashpoints
Subjects LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Literary theory
 

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