Sbriglia Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek

SIC 10
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7338-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: [sic] Series

This volume demonstrates the importance of Slavoj Žižek's work to literary criticism and theory by showing how his practice of reading theory and literature can be used in numerous theoretical frameworks and applied to literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres, creating new interpretations of familiar works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sbriglia, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Did Somebody Say Žižek and Literature? / Russell Sbriglia 1
Part I. Theory
1. Reading the Real: Žižek's Literary Materialism / Anna Kornbluh 35
2. Looking Awry: Žižek's Ridiculous Sublime / Shawn Alfrey 62
3. The Bankruptcy of Historicism: Introducing Disruption into Literary Studies / Todd McGowan 89
4. The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish / Russell Sbriglia 107
5. Concrete Universality and the End of Revolutionary Politics: A Žižekian Approach to Postcolonial Women's Writings / Jamil Khader 137
6. A Robot Runs through It: Žižek and Ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman 169
Part II. Interpretation
7. Shakespeare after Žižek: Social Antagonism and Ideological Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice / Geoff Boucher 195
8. Beyond Symbolic Authority: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the Aesthetics of the Real / Louis-Paul Willis 222
9. Wake-Up Call: Žižek, Burroughs, and Fantasy in the Sleeper Awakened Plot / Daniel Beaumont 245
10. Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Paul Megna 267
11. The Minimal Event: Subjective Destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett / Slavoj Žižek 290
Contributors 317
Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Russell Sbriglia is Assistant Professor of English at Seton Hall University.