| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 183 pages) |
| Series |
Series in literary studies |
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Series in literary studies.
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| Summary |
" ... The individual is affected by a difficulty to communicate her metaphor machine to the Other, as if it were inexpressible. This work explores how the characters in the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac MacCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Maurice G. Dantec and China Mieville suffer from these limits of language and the constrictions of the Law. Through violence they look for their individual Voice, intended as their will-to-say, the 'pure taking place of language' (Agamben). In their struggle to be heard these characters are however deaf to the Voice of the Other. There is a need for a new Ethics of Narratives expressed through an Epic of the Voice founded on the will-to-listen, along the lines of the concept of the posthuman theorized by Rosi Braidotti. Here subjectivity is a process of constant autopoiesis dependent on the relationship the individual has with the Other and ..."--Back cover |
| Notes |
"With an introduction by Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence in literature.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction -- Social aspects
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Literature and morals.
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Comparative literature.
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Metaphor in literature.
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
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Comparative literature
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Fiction
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Fiction -- Social aspects
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Literature and morals
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Metaphor in literature
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
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Violence in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Academic theses
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Docherty, Thomas, 1955- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9781622738199 |
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1622738195 |
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