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Author Bourassa, Alan.

Title Deleuze and American literature : affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy / Alan Bourassa
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 210 pages)
Contents Literature, character and the human -- Wharton's aesthetics and the ethics of affect -- Invisible man: affect, history, race -- Cormac McCarthy and the event of the human -- The moral singularity: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles and McCarthy's Blood meridian -- Absalom, absalom! time and the virtual -- Riders of the virtual sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy and the transformation of the popular Western -- Conclusion: the ethic of the nonhuman
Summary Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast
Ellison, Ralph fast
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 fast
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 fast
Deleuze, Gilles. swd
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Humanity in literature.
Literary studies: general -- USA.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature.
American fiction
Characters and characteristics in literature
Human beings in literature
Humanity in literature
Literatur
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230100633
0230100635
9781349380022
1349380024