| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 237 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature; Part I: To Know What Literature Is; 1. The Functions of Literature; 2. Universalizing Marginality: How Europe Became Deaf in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Monstrous Body, Tortured Soul: Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses; 4. Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: The Case of Herman Melville; Part II: A Language Poised against Death; 5. Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis; 6. Cannibalizing the Humanist Subject: A Genealogy of Prospero |
| Summary |
Traditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society |
| Analysis |
Desacralization |
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Genealogical literary analysis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social structure in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Canon (Literature)
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Social structure in literature
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Letterkunde.
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Desacralisatie.
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Genealogie.
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Literatuurkritiek.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quinby, Lee, 1946-
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| LC no. |
95000739 |
| ISBN |
9780816625604 |
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0816625603 |
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9780816686322 |
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0816686327 |
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