LEADER 03144nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910784367103321 005 20230207225556.0 010 $a0-8166-8632-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000347115 035 $a(EBL)310335 035 $a(OCoLC)476093940 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000161342 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161342 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198922 035 $a(PQKB)10010475 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC310335 035 $a(OCoLC)191935407 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse39165 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL310335 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10159506 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL668540 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000347115 100 $a19950103d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGenealogy and literature$b[electronic resource] /$fLee Quinby, editor 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-2561-1 311 $a0-8166-2560-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Prospero 327 $a7. 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; Z 330 $aTraditionalists 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. 606 $aSocial structure in literature 606 $aCanon (Literature) 610 0 $aDesacralization. 610 0 $aGenealogical literary analysis. 615 0$aSocial structure in literature. 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 676 $a809 701 $aQuinby$b Lee$f1946-$01498221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784367103321 996 $aGenealogy and literature$93723718 997 $aUNINA