Deleuze and Literature

Ian Buchanan; John Marks

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2000

Deleuze and Literature

Ian Buchanan and John Marks

In the series Deleuze Connections

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465472

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Although he is best known as a philosopher, Deleuze's interests were extremely far reaching - in addition to his important critiques of major philosophers like Kant, Hume and Spinoza, he also wrote extensively on literature, cinema and art. Characteristically, he didn't apply philosophy to the arts, he always tried to extract philosophy from them.

Deleuze wrote widely on literature, but always with an eye to extract something new and interesting, never merely to interpret. Indeed, his most notorious slogan was 'don't ask what it means? Ask how it works?' He wrote monographs on Proust, Kafka and Sacher-Masoch. He also wrote essays on Beckett, Melville, Jarry, T.E. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, and Whitman.

The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts? And how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way?

Contributors: Bruce Baugh, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Andre Pierre Colombat, Tom Conley, Hugh Crawford, Marlene Goldman, Eugene W. Holland, Greg Lambert, John Marks, Timothy S. Murphy and Kenneth Surin.

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Introduction: Deleuze and Literature Jan Buchanan and John Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Deleuze and Signs André Pierre Colombat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
2. How Deleuze can help us make Literature work Bruce Baugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. The Paterson Plateau: Deleuze, Guattari and William Carlos Williams T. Hugh Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Underworld: The People are Missing John Marks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
5. Inhuman Irony: The Event of the Postmodern Claire Colebrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
6. On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life Gregg Lambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7. 'A Question of an Axiomatic of Desires': The Deleuzian Imagination of Geoliterature Kenneth Surin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
8. Transvestism, Drag and Becomings: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Fictions of Timothy Findley Marlene Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
9. Only Intensities Subsist: Samuel Beckett's Nohow On Timothy S. Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
10. Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death Eugene W. Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
11. I and My Deleuze Tom Conley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Philosophy

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