| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 167 pages). |
| Series |
Continuum literary studies series |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Literature, Experience and Ethics; Chapter 2: The Ungoverned Tongue: Seamus Heaney; Chapter 3: Foucault's Turn from Literature; Chapter 4: Language, Culture and Confusion: Brian Friel; Chapter 5: Foucault's Concept of Experience; Chapter 6: Re-making Experience: James Joyce; Chapter 7: Experimental Subjects: Swift and Beckett; Chapter 8: Ethics and Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Foucault and Fiction develops a unique approach to thinking about the power of literature by drawing upon the often neglected concept of experience in Foucault's work. For Foucault, an 'experience book' is a book which transforms our experience by acting on us in a direct and unsettling way. Timothy O'Leary develops and applies this concept to literary texts. Starting from the premise that works of literature are capable of having a profound effect on their audiences, he suggests a way of understanding how these effects are produced. Offering extended analyses of Irish writers such as Swift, J. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Ethics.
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Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Ethics in literature.
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Literature and morals.
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Fiction -- Psychological aspects.
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Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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| Added Title |
Experience book |
| Other Form: |
Print version: O'Leary, Timothy, 1966- Foucault and fiction. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9780826495952 (OCoLC)190777941 |
| ISBN |
9781441190215 (electronic bk.) |
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144119021X (electronic bk.) |
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