Research Catalog

Title

Literature, ethics, and aesthetics : applied Deleuze and Guattari / Sabrina Achilles.

Author

Achilles, Sabrina.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Description

xiv, 213 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks the ways in which literature is understood and taught. Through an interdisciplinary approach, literature is viewed from the position of a problem without any pre-given frame"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• Literature > Philosophy
• Constructivism (Philosophy)
• Literature and morals
• Literary theory
• Literature and morals
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the literary function -- Being constructivist -- Rethinking the performative in pragmatics -- The literary function and the cartographic turn: performative philosophy -- The literary function and society, I: affirmation of immanent aesthetics -- The literary function and society, II: community and subjectification -- The reader and the event of fiction -- Conclusion: degrees of freedom.

ISBN

• 9780230340893 (hardback)
• 023034089X (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011036204

OCLC

744287320

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library