03060nam 2200601Ia 450 991080731800332120200520144314.00-8166-8632-7(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 /Lee Quinby, editor1st ed.Minneapolis 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)Social structure in literature.Canon (Literature)809Quinby Lee1946-1595962MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807318003321Genealogy and literature4036869UNINA