Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek: Sic 10

Book Overview

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Zizek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363186
• ISBN13: 9780822363187
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"