Bataille /
"Bataille is a guide to reading literary and cultural texts in the light of George Bataille's work. It explores the significance of Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression, and eroticism through detailed readings of Shakespeare and early modern literature, Gothic and postmoder...
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Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave,
2001.
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| Series: | Transitions (Palgrave (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Literature
- 1. W(h)ither Theory 15
- Theory/heterology 16
- Theory/desire 23
- Assimilation/excess 27
- Intellectual/power 29
- 2. Writing, Heterology, Inner Experience 34
- Literature as the modern sacred 35
- La Coupable 38
- Literature without literature/inner experience 41
- Death of literature 49
- 3. Sovereign Abjection 53
- Death of the unborn subject 53
- Sovereign yet not individual 59
- Loss and sacralization in the economy of desire 67
- Birth of the sovereign subject 74
- Part II Economy
- 4. Between Lacan and Derrida 79
- Labyrinths 79
- Legacies 87
- Solar Bataille 93
- 5. From Caesar to Acephale 102
- Deep in the woods 102
- Dead Joe 104
- King Ink 114
- Swampland 120
- 6. Pow Pow Pow 127
- Part III Culture
- 7. Signs of Evil 149
- Sublime object of evil 149
- Duplicity, image 155
- Expenditure, repetition 161
- 8. Whore-text 168
- Everything but the kiss 168
- Whorestory 172
- Whoresex 175
- Madam Edward/a 183
- 9. Psychological Structure of Utopia 188
- Shit, civilization, the future 188
- Subject, modernity, fascism 195
- Aesthetics, technology, expenditure 200
- Critical Writing on Bataille in English 220.