In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project—which they termed schizoanalysis—upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical and cultural theory, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature is a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.
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Introduction
Ian Buchanan, Tim Matts, and Aidan Tynan – Towards a Schizoanalytic Criticism

1. Towards a Schizoanalysis of Literature
Ian Buchanan – The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs
Robert Porter and Iain Mackenzie – The Drama of Schizoanalysis: On Deleuze and Guattari’s Method

2. The Ethics of Style
Joe Hughes – The Schizoanalysis of Literature: Austen, Behn and the Scene of Desire
Donald Cross – What Is Nonstyle in What Is Philosophy?
Ruben Borg – Deleuze on Genre: Modernity between the Tragic and the Novel

3. Schizoanalytic Interventions
Garin Dowd – Is Critique et Clinique Schizoanalytic?: Schizoanalysis and Deleuze’s Critical and Clinical Project
Alan Bourassa – The Analyst and the Nomad: Lacan, Deleuze and Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
Lorna Burns – Razing the Wall: Deleuze, Ranciere and the Politics of New World Literatures

4. Literature and Life After Deleuze
Benjamin Noys – ‘Love and Napalm: Export USA’: Schizoanalysis, Acceleration, and Contemporary American Literature
Benjamin Woodard – Negarestani in R’lyeh

Bibliography
Index

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The work of perennially important philosopher Gilles Deleuze is applied to literature with a specific focus on his concept of schizoanalysis.
Provides a new interdisciplinary introduction and approach to schizoanalysis
Schizoanalysis has the potential to be to Deleuze and Guattari’s work what deconstruction is to Derrida’s – the standard rubric by which their work is known and, more importantly, applied. Many within the field of Deleuze and Guattari studies would resist this idea, but the goal of this series is to broaden the base of scholars interested in their work. Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas are widely known and used, but not in a systematic way and this is both a strength and weakness. It is a strength because it enables people to pick up their work from a wide variety of perspectives, but it is also a weakness because it makes it difficult to say with any clarity what exactly a ‘Deleuzo-Guattarian’ approach is. This has inhibited the uptake of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking in the more willful disciplines such as history, politics, and even philosophy. Without this methodological core, Deleuze and Guattari studies risk becoming simply another intellectual fashion that will soon be superseded by newer figures. The goal of the Schizoanalytic Applications series is to create a methodological core and build a sustainable model of schizoanalysis that will attract new scholars to the field. With this purpose, the series also aims to be at the forefront of the field by starting a discussion about the nature of Deleuze and Guattari’s methodology.
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ISBN
9781472529633
Publisert
2015-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
490 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

Om bidragsyterne

Ian Buchanan is Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of Deleuzism (2000) and the editor of Deleuze Studies.

Tim Matts was formerly Research Associate with the Department of Decay at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.

Aidan Tynan teaches English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms.