BookDeleuze and American literature : affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, ...
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Main title
- Deleuze and American literature : affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy / Alan Bourassa.
Published/Created
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Description
- ix, 210 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN
- 0230616569 (alk. paper)
LC classification
- PS374.C43 B68 2009
Contents
- Literature, character and the human -- Wharton's aesthetics and the ethics of affect -- Invisible man: affect, history, race -- Cormac McCarthy and the event of the human -- The moral singularity: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles and McCarthy's Blood meridian -- Absalom, absalom! time and the virtual -- Riders of the virtual sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy and the transformation of the popular Western -- Conclusion: the ethic of the nonhuman.
LC Subjects
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ellison, Ralph--Criticism and interpretation.
- McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023--Criticism and interpretation.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Human beings in literature.
- Humanity in literature.
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LCCN
- 2009004857
Dewey class no.
- 813/.50935
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- Book
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- FLS2013 021067
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