(Beyond) posthuman violence : epic rewritings of ethics in the contemporary novel /
" ... The individual is affected by a difficulty to communicate her metaphor machine to the Other, as if it were inexpressible. This work explores how the characters in the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac MacCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal S...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wilmington, Delaware :
Vernon Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Series in literary studies.
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| Summary: | " ... The individual is affected by a difficulty to communicate her metaphor machine to the Other, as if it were inexpressible. This work explores how the characters in the works of David Foster Wallace, Cormac MacCarthy, J. G. Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Maurice G. Dantec and China Mieville suffer from these limits of language and the constrictions of the Law. Through violence they look for their individual Voice, intended as their will-to-say, the 'pure taking place of language' (Agamben). In their struggle to be heard these characters are however deaf to the Voice of the Other. There is a need for a new Ethics of Narratives expressed through an Epic of the Voice founded on the will-to-listen, along the lines of the concept of the posthuman theorized by Rosi Braidotti. Here subjectivity is a process of constant autopoiesis dependent on the relationship the individual has with the Other and ... "--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "With an introduction by Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick"--Book jacket. |
| Physical Description: | xxxix, 183 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1622736389 9781622736386 |