Foucault and fiction the experience book Timothy O'Leary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Leary, Timothy, 1966- author.

Series:

Continuum literary studies.

Continuum literary studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Ethics.

Foucault, Michel.

Fiction--Psychological aspects.

Fiction.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature and morals.

Ethics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2009.

Language Note:

English

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, Joyce, Beckett, Friel and Heaney, O'Leary draws on Foucault's concept of experience as well as the work of Dewey, Gadamer, and Deleuze and Guattari. Combining these resources, he proposes a new approach to the ethics of literature. Of interest to readers in both philosophy and literary studies, this book offers new insights into Foucault's mature philosophy and an improved understanding of what it is to read and be affected by a work of fiction

Contents:

Acknowledgements

1. Literature, experience, and ethics

2. The ungoverned tongue: Seamus Heaney

3. Foucault's turn from literature

4. Language, culture, and confusion: Brian Friel

5. Foucault's concept of experience

6. Re-making experience: James Joyce

7. Experimental subjects: Swift and Beckett

8. Ethics and fiction

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-164) and index

ISBN:

9786612319525

9781472542434

1472542436

9781282319523

1282319523

9781441190215

144119021X

OCLC:

471468825