03540nam 22007211c 450 991077841720332120200115203623.01-4725-4243-61-282-31952-397866123195251-4411-9021-X10.5040/9781472542434(CKB)1000000000817112(EBL)472782(OCoLC)471468825(SSID)ssj0000337837(PQKBManifestationID)11254798(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337837(PQKBWorkID)10295387(PQKB)11508581(MiAaPQ)EBC472782(Au-PeEL)EBL472782(CaPaEBR)ebr10343582(CaONFJC)MIL231952(OCoLC)893334760(UtOrBLW)bpp09255835(PPN)258034122(EXLCZ)99100000000081711220140929d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFoucault and fiction the experience book Timothy O'LearyLondon New York Continuum 2009.1 online resource (178 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-8210-1 0-8264-9595-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-164) and indexAcknowledgements -- 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 -- IndexFoucault 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 fictionContinuum literary studies.FictionPsychological aspectsWestern philosophy, from c 1900 -LiteraturePhilosophyLiterature and moralsEthics in literatureFictionPsychological aspects.LiteraturePhilosophy.Literature and morals.Ethics in literature.801.95O'Leary Timothy1966-867738UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910778417203321Foucault and fiction3760451UNINA