Oscillations of literary theory : the paranoid imperative and queer reparative / A.C. Facundo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Facundo, A. C., 1985- author.

Series:

SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education

Suny series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--Psychological aspects.

Literature, Modern.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Paranoia in literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

Oscillations of Literary Theory" offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov?s Lolita, Danielewski?s House of Leaves, Findley?s The Wars, and Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading.

Contents:

Introduction

The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited

A Tempest in a Test Tube: The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

An Ethics of Failure: Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves

Your Children: Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars

Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Facundo, A.C., 1985- author. Oscillations of literary theory.

ISBN:

9781438463094

143846309X

OCLC:

947816390