Bataille (Transitions)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 11, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780333914595
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary theory; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Performing Arts / Mass Media; General; 1897-1962; 20th century; Bataille, Georges,; Criticism; History
First sentence: 'O-o-o-o!' Theory is a game, a game of desire with a piece of string and a reel.
Description: "Bataille is a guide to reading literary and cultural texts in the light of George Bataille's work. It explores the significance of Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression, and eroticism through detailed readings of Shakespeare and early modern literature, Gothic and postmodernist fiction, and popular movies. Bataillean concepts are situated in relation to the ideas of Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Baudrillard, and Deleuze, and the significance for both contemporary and future modes of cultural analysis is explored."--Jacket.