Leo Bersani

Queer Theory and Beyond

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2014
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5411-5 (ISBN)

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Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.

For more than fifty years, Leo Bersani's writing has inspired and challenged scholars in the fields of literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and film and visual studies. This is the first book-length collection on this important author. The book's extensive introduction outlines in detail Bersani's oeuvre, particularly its place in queer thought and his complicated relationships with the fields of queer theory and psychoanalysis. The subsequent contributions by notable scholars in various fields demonstrate the richness and open-endedness of his work. The book concludes with a new interview with Bersani.

Mikko Tuhkanen is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright and the coeditor (with E. L. McCallum) of Queer Times, Queer Becomings, both also published by SUNY Press.

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Introduction
Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond
Mikko Tuhkanen

Part I: Queer

1. Bersani on Location
Heather Love

2. Embarrassment and the Forms of Redemption
David Kurnick

3. Queer Betrayals
Jack Halbstam

Part II: Psychoanalytic

4. Cinema a tergo: Shooting in Elephant
Ellis Hanson

5. Reading Freud: Bersani and Lacan
James Penney

6. Addressing Oneself: Bersani and the Form/Fold of Self-Relation
Patrick ffrench

7. Monadological Psychoanalysis: Bersani, Laplanche, Beckett
Mikko Tuhkanen

Part III: Aesthetic

8. Is the Rectangle a Grave?
Michael D. Snediker

9. Proust, Shattering: Aesthetic Subjects and Metonymies of Desire
E. L. McCallum

10. A Future for Henry James
David McWhirter

11. Extreme Style: Firbank, Faulkner, and Perspectives on Modern Traditions
Kevin Ohi

Part IV: Interview

12. Rigorously Speculating: An Interview with Leo Bersani
Mikko Tuhkanen

Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2014
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4384-5411-2 / 1438454112
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5411-5 / 9781438454115
Zustand	Neuware