| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 167 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Literature, Experience and Ethics; Chapter 2: The Ungoverned Tongue: Seamus Heaney; Chapter 3: Foucault's Turn from Literature; Chapter 4: Language, Culture and Confusion: Brian Friel; Chapter 5: Foucault's Concept of Experience; Chapter 6: Re-making Experience: James Joyce; Chapter 7: Experimental Subjects: Swift and Beckett; Chapter 8: Ethics and Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, J |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Ethics
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| SUBJECT |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast |
| Subject |
Ethics in literature.
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Literature and morals.
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects
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Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Ethics
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Ethics in literature
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Ethics, Modern
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects
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Literature and morals
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Literature -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441190215 |
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144119021X |
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9781441182104 |
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1441182101 |
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1472542436 |
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9781472542434 |
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1282319523 |
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9781282319523 |
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9786612319525 |
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6612319526 |
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9781441156945 |
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1441156941 |
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