Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. I. Theory: 1. Reading the Real: ieks Literary Materialism/Anna Kornbluh. 2. Looking Awry: ieks Ridiculous Sublime/Shawn Alfrey. 3. The Bankruptcy of Historicism: Introducing Disruption into Literary Studies/Todd McGowan. 4. The Symptoms of Ideology Critique; or, How We Learned to Enjoy the Symptom and Ignore the Fetish/Russell Sbriglia. 5. Concrete Universality and the End of Revolutionary Politics: A iekian Approach to Postcolonial Women s Writings/Jamil Khader. 6. A Robot Runs through It: iek and Ecocriticism/Andrew Hageman. II. Interpretation: 7. Shakespeare after iek: Social Antagonism and Ideological Exclusion in The Merchant of Venice/Geoff Boucher. 8. Beyond Symbolic Authority: La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the Aesthetics of the Real/Louis-Paul Willis.9. Wake-Up Call: iek, Burroughs, and Fantasy in the Sleeper Awakened Plot/Daniel Beaumont. 10. Courtly Love Hate Is Undead: Sadomasochistic Privilege in Chaucer s Troilus and Criseyde/Paul Megna. 11. The Minimal Event: Subjective Destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett/Slavoj iek. Index. This work demonstrates the importance of Slavoj iek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how iek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian sychoanalysis and German Idealism, resulting in a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications in the analysis of literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer iekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. There is alsoan essay by iek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. This bookaffirms iek's value to literary studies and also offers a rigorous model of iekian criticism. (jacket). Seller Inventory # 122134

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