Deleuze and American literature
Subtitle: affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy
By: Alan Bourassa.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation; Faulkner, William, -- 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation; Wharton, Edith, -- 1862-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ellison, Ralph -- Criticism and interpretation; McCarthy, Cormac, -- 1933- -- Criticism and interpretation; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Characters and characteristics in literature; Human beings in literature; Humanity in literature
Table of contents: title: Literature, character and the human; title: Wharton's aesthetics and the ethics of affect; title: Invisible man: affect, history, race; title: Cormac McCarthy and the event of the human; title: The moral singularity: Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles and McCarthy's Blood meridian; title: Absalom, absalom! time and the virtual; title: Riders of the virtual sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy and the transformation of the popular Western; title: Conclusion: the ethic of the nonhuman.