Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

ISBN-13: 9780230517530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 184 str.

Mary Bryden

Opis

Gilles Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Deleuze repeatedly asserted that he was not a literary critic, and yet he provides exhilarating and brilliantly original interactions with literary texts. This study sets up in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and some of the writers who fascinated him (T.E. Lawrence, Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Tournier, Beckett). Using travel as a transversal theme, the book demonstrates the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference when applied to literary texts.

Recenzje

'...this is a highly thoughtful book in every sense of the word. It is a pleasure to read and constitutes a very valuable addition to the discussion of Deleuze and literature.' - Mairéad Hanrahan, French Studies

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Travelling by Camel: T.E. Lawrence and the Portability of Shame Travel by Sea: Herman Melville Travelling Inwards: D.H. Lawrence Land-to-Air Travel: Michel Tournier Travelling on Foot and Bicycle: Self-Locomotion in Samuel Beckett Afterword: Strobic Travelling with Hélène Cixous Works Cited

O autorze

MARY BRYDEN is Professor of European Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Reading, and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, and the edited collection Deleuze and Religion.