The Barbara Johnson Reader : The Surprise of Otherness /

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This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Valens, Keja, 1972- (Editor ), Porten, Lili (Editor ), Johnson González, Bill, 1970- (Editor ), Feuerstein, Melissa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Johnson, Barbara, > 1947-2009.
Feminist literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Critique feministe.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Personhood and other objects: the figural dispute with philosophy by Judith Butler
  • "Barbara Johnson" by Barbara Johnson
  • Reading theory as literature, literature as theory
  • The critical difference: Barthes/Balzac
  • Translator's introduction to dissemination (abridged)
  • Poetry and syntax: what the gypsy knew
  • A hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove: obscurity in walden
  • Strange fits: poe and wordsworth on the nature of poetic language
  • The frame of reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida
  • Race, sexuality, gender
  • Euphemism, understatement, and the passive voice: a genealogy of Afro-American poetry
  • Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in their eyes were watching God
  • Moses and intertexuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible
  • Lesbian spectacles: reading Sula, passing, Thelma and Louise, and the accused
  • Bringing out D.A. Miller
  • Correctional facilities
  • My monster/my self
  • Language, personhood, ethics
  • Introduction to freedom and interpretation (abridged)
  • Muteness envy
  • Apostrophe, animation, and abortion
  • Anthropomorphism in lyric and law
  • Using people: kant with winnicott
  • Ego sum game
  • Melville's fist: the execution of Billy Budd
  • Pedagogy and translation
  • Nothing fails like success
  • Bad writing
  • Teaching deconstructively
  • Poison or remedy? Paul de man as pharmakon
  • Taking fidelity philosophically
  • The task of the translator
  • Teaching ignorance: l'ecole des femmes
  • Afterword: Barbara's signature by Shoshana Felman.

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