Deleuze and American Literature [electronic resource] : Affect and Virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy /
Bourassa, A.author.
Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Ellison, Ralph
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
America—Literatures.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
North American Literature.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.