Title: The culture of redemption /
Authors: Bersani, Leo
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Aesthetics.
Abstract: A polemical study of claims made in the modern period for the authoritative, even redemptive virtues of literature--P.1.
Contents: The corrective will. Death and literary authority: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein -- Erotic assumptions: narcissism and sublimation in freud -- Boundaries of time and being: Benjamin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche -- Literature and history: Malraux and Bataille -- Enclyclopedic fictions. Flaubertian rhythms of knowledge -- Incomparable America -- Against Ulysses -- Pynchon, paranoia, and literature.