Oscillations of literary theory : the paranoid imperative and queer reparative /

Oscillations of Literary Theory" offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A.C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Facundo, A. C., 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016.
Series:SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature, Modern > Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Paranoia in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Paranoïa dans la littérature.
Homosexualité dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Homosexuality in literature
Literature, Modern
Literature, Modern > Psychological aspects
Paranoia in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited
  • A Tempest in a Test Tube: The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
  • An Ethics of Failure: Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves
  • Your Children: Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars
  • Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
  • Conclusion.

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