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Autore |
O'Leary Timothy <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Foucault and fiction : the experience book / / Timothy O'Leary |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4725-4243-6 |
1-282-31952-3 |
9786612319525 |
1-4411-9021-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (178 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum literary studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fiction - Psychological aspects |
Literature - Philosophy |
Literature and morals |
Ethics in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-164) and index |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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