Foucault and fiction : the experience book / Timothy O'Leary.
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Дополнительная Информация
- Описание
- 1 online resource (ix, 167 pages).
- Серия
- Continuum literary studies series
- Continuum literary studies.
- Библиография
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index.
- Содержание
- 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.
- Примечание
- Print version record.
- Тема
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Ethics.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Ethics in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
- Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
- Literature -- Philosophy.
- English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
- Дополнительное заглавие
- Experience book
- Other Form:
- Print version: O'Leary, Timothy, 1966- Foucault and fiction. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826495952 (OCoLC)190777941
- ISBN
- 9781441190215 (electronic bk.)
- 144119021X (electronic bk.)