Oscillations of literary theory the paranoid imperative and queer reparative Facundo, A. C. 1985- creator author. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 2016 monographic eng print x, 232 pages ; 24 cm. Oscillations of Literary Theory" offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov?s Lolita, Danielewski?s House of Leaves, Findley?s The Wars, and Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading. Introduction -- The Death Drive and the Life Drive Revisited -- A Tempest in a Test Tube: The Paranoid Imperative of Scientia Sexualis and Psychoanalysis in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- An Ethics of Failure: Visual Literalization as a Queer Vanishing Point in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves -- Your Children: Queer Temporalities and Failed Identification in Timothy Findley's The Wars -- Reading the Queer Reparative in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Conclusion. A.C. Facundo. Includes bibliographical references and index. Literature, Modern Psychological aspects Psychoanalysis and literature Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Paranoia in literature Homosexuality in literature Homosexuality in literature Literature, Modern Literature, Modern Psychological aspects Paranoia in literature Psychoanalysis and literature 1900-1999 fast PN56.P92 F35 2016 809/.04 Oscillations of literary theory Facundo, A.C., 1985- author. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 (DLC) 2016029030 SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education 9781438463094 143846309X 2016007707 DLC 160504 20161207134041.0 in00003726396 eng