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Descripción

1 online resource (ix, 167 pages).

Colección

Continuum literary studies series

Continuum literary studies.

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index.

Contenido

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.

Sumario

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.

Nota

Print version record.

Materia

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.

Otro Título

Experience book

Otro formato:

Print version: O'Leary, Timothy, 1966- Foucault and fiction. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826495952 (OCoLC)190777941

ISBN

9781441190215 (electronic bk.)

144119021X (electronic bk.)