Intuitions in literature, technology, and politics
Subtitle: parabilities
By: Alan Ramón Clinton
Series: American literature readings in the 21st centuries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781137006967
Subjects: History and criticism; Theory; Modern Literature
Description: An energetically interdisciplinary project, this book incorporates queer theory, disability studies, and digital humanities into well-informed, new readings on post-WWII authors including Bruce Andrews, Thomas Pynchon, and Sylvia Plath. Using the idea of 'parability, 'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ram̤n Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Privileging singularity and invention over leaden argumentation, this study expands the idea of what it means to read literary texts.
Table of contents: title: Intuitions in: Methodologies; title: Space, spectrality, and parability; title: Conspiracy of commodities: Encyclopedic narrative and crowdedness; title: From spectacle to fascicle: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Forché, and messianic history; title: Spectral conversions: James Merrill and Hannah Weiner; title: Sylvia Plath and electracy: Spectral poetics with(out) specters; title: The wireless spaces of Ashbery and Eigner; title: Louis Zukofsky and quantum criticism (a/one conclusion).