Oscillations of literary theory : the paranoid imperative and queer reparative /

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Author / Creator:	Facundo, A. C., 1985- author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education. SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.
Subject:	Literature, Modern -- Psychological aspects. Psychoanalysis and literature. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Paranoia in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Homosexuality in literature. Literature, Modern. Literature, Modern -- Psychological aspects. Paranoia in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11407788

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ISBN:	9781438463100 1438463103 9781438463094 (hardcover : alk. paper) 143846309X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Oscillations of Literary Theory" offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A.C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov?s Lolita, Danielewski?s House of Leaves, Findley?s The Wars, and Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading.
Other form:	Print version: Facundo, A. C., 1985- author. Oscillations of literary theory Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 9781438463094

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