Deleuze and Literature / / Ian Buchanan, John Marks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Buchanan, Ian,; Marks, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Baugh, Bruce,; Buchanan, Jan,; Colebrook, Claire,; Colombat, André Pierre,; Conley, Tom,; Crawford, T. Hugh,; Goldman, Marlene,; Holland, Eugene W.,; Lambert, Gregg,; Marks, John,; Murphy, Timothy S.,; Surin, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Deleuze Connections : DECO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Deleuze and Literature -- 1. Deleuze and Signs -- 2. How Deleuze can help us make Literature work -- 3. The Paterson Plateau: Deleuze, Guattari and William Carlos Williams -- 4. Underworld: The People are Missing -- 5. Inhuman Irony: The Event of the Postmodern -- 6. On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life -- 7. 'A Question of an Axiomatic of Desires': The Deleuzian Imagination of Geoliterature -- 8. Transvestism, Drag and Becomings: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Fictions of Timothy Findley -- 9. Only Intensities Subsist: Samuel Beckett's Nohow On -- 10. Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death -- 11. I and My Deleuze -- Notes on Contributors -- Index