Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown / Gossy, Mary

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gossy, Mary, author.

Series:

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 2

Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary studies: general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2009

Summary:

Literature gives access to the "verge," to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown offers pleasurable instruction to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions are asked and explored. A cavalcade of writers-among them Edward Gibbon, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, the Wolf-Man, Gertrude Stein, Monique Wittig, Jeanette Winterson, Monty Python and even Miguel de Cervantes and A. Conan Doyle-- have written about empire, femininity, Spain, pain, wounds, war and love. Symptoms of imperial panic abound in their pages, very frequently manifesting directly or indirectly in allusions to Spain and things Spanish. Here female or feminized bodies often bear the brunt of any acting-out. In t... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781800855038

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access