03144nam 2200613Ia 450 991078436710332120230207225556.00-8166-8632-7(CKB)1000000000347115(EBL)310335(OCoLC)476093940(SSID)ssj0000161342(PQKBManifestationID)11183403(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161342(PQKBWorkID)10198922(PQKB)10010475(MiAaPQ)EBC310335(OCoLC)191935407(MdBmJHUP)muse39165(Au-PeEL)EBL310335(CaPaEBR)ebr10159506(CaONFJC)MIL668540(EXLCZ)99100000000034711519950103d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenealogy and literature[electronic resource] /Lee Quinby, editorMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19951 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2561-1 0-8166-2560-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Genealogy and the Desacralization of Literature; Part I: To Know What Literature Is; 1. The Functions of Literature; 2. Universalizing Marginality: How Europe Became Deaf in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Monstrous Body, Tortured Soul: Frankenstein at the Juncture between Discourses; 4. Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: The Case of Herman Melville; Part II: A Language Poised against Death; 5. Post-Foucauldian Criticism: Government, Death, Mimesis; 6. Cannibalizing the Humanist Subject: A Genealogy of Prospero7. Grounds for Decolonization: Arguedas's Foxes8. Genealogical Determinism in Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Part III: Seeking the Limits of the Possible; 9. Sex Matters: Genealogical Inquiries, Pedagogical Implications; 10. The Real and the Marvelous in Charleston, South Carolina: Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo; 11. Body/Talk: Mishima, Masturbation, and Self-Performativity; 12. ""Dreadful Dioramas"": Guibert's Countermemories; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZTraditionalists insist that literature transcends culture. Others counter that it is subversive by nature. By challenging both claims, Genealogy and Literature reveals the importance of literature for understanding dominant and often violent power/knowledge relations within a given society.Social structure in literatureCanon (Literature)Desacralization.Genealogical literary analysis.Social structure in literature.Canon (Literature)809Quinby Lee1946-1498221MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784367103321Genealogy and literature3723718UNINA