Deleuze and American Literature

Affect and Virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-349-38002-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourassa, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Literature, Character and the Human Wharton's Aesthetics and the Ethics of Affect Invisible Man: Affect, History, Race Cormac McCarthy and the Event of the Human The Moral Singularity: Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and McCarthy's Blood Meridian Absalom, Absalom! Time and the Virtual Riders of the Virtual Sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy and the Transformation of the Popular Western Conclusion: The Ethic of the Nonhuman

Über Autor(innen)

ALAN BOURASSA is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Thomas University, Canada.