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

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

Product details

• 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