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Informationen zum Autor Ian Buchanan is Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong. He is the author of A Reader's Guide to Anti-Oedipus and Deleuzism: A Metacommentary, and Editor of the journal Deleuze Studies. John Marks is Reader in French in the Department of Modern Languages at The Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity Klappentext Although he is best known as a philosopher! Deleuze's interests were extremely far-reaching. In addition to his important critiques of major philosophers like Kant! Hume! and Spinoza! he also wrote extensively on literature! cinema! and art. Deleuze wrote monographs on Proust! Kafka! and Sacher-Masoch. He also wrote essays on Beckett! Melville! Jarry! T.E. Lawrence! D. H. Lawrence! and Whitman. The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars! the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts and how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way? Zusammenfassung The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts? And how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Deleuze and Literature; Ian Buchanan & John Marks; 1. Deleuze and Signs; Andre Pierre Colombat; 2. How Deleuze Can Help Us Make Literature Work; Bruce Baugh; 3. The 'Paterson' Plateau: Deleuze, Guattari, and William Carlos Williams; Hugh Crawford; 4. 'Underworld': The People are Missing; John Marks; 5. Inhuman Irony: The Event of the Postmodern; Claire Colebrook; 6. On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life; Greg Lambert; 7. 'A Question of an Axiomatic of Desires': the Deleuzian Imagination of Geoliterature; Kenneth Surin; 8. Transvestism, Drag and Becomings: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Fictions of Timothy Findley; Marlene Goldman; 9. Only Intensities Subsist: Samuel Beckett's 'Nohow On'; Timothy S. Murphy; 10. Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death; Eugene W. Holland; 11. I and My Deleuze; Tom Conley....
