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Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Mary Gossy
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Description for Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Hardcover. Literature gives access to the verge, to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. This title offers instructions to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards the understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 329.
Literature gives access to the “verge,” to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown offers pleasurable instruction to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions are asked and explored. A cavalcade of writers—among them Edward Gibbon, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, the Wolf-Man, Gertrude Stein, Monique ... Read more
Literature gives access to the “verge,” to the place where the full terror of falling is felt, and yet both feet are still on the ground. Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown offers pleasurable instruction to readers who want to know and feel their ways through and beyond disciplinary conventions towards new and clearer understandings of how empires and texts shiver and fall, and why. Literature makes a difference to the ways that these questions are asked and explored. A cavalcade of writers—among them Edward Gibbon, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, the Wolf-Man, Gertrude Stein, Monique ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311826
SKU
V9781846311826
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About Mary Gossy
Mary Gossy has a PhD from Harvard University and is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Spanish and Comparative Literatures, Rutgers University and the author of Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue (University of Michigan Press, 1995) and The Untold Story: Women and Theory in Golden Age Texts (University of Michigan Press, 1990).
Reviews for Empire on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Engaging, theoretically sophisticated, lucid and convincing. This is outstandingly original. Paul Julian Smith