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Foucault and fiction : the experience book /
Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, J. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441190215 144119021X 9781441182104 1441182101 1472542436 9781472542434 1282319523 9781282319523 9786612319525 6612319526 9781441156945 1441156941 |