Reading the Real: Toward a Reevaluation of Lacanian Theory in the Study of Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film (text & theorie) - Softcover

Reading the real : toward a reevaluation of Lacanian theory in the study of twenty-first century literature and film. Text & Theorie ; Bd. 19.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Wie neu. 213 S., Ill. Ein neuwertiges Exemplar. - The study examines two twenty-first century novels and films from a Lacanian perspective to argue that the interest these works have taken in what Lacan termed the ,Real suggests a new path for the novel and film after the era of poststructuralist postmodernism. For Lacan, the Real refers explicitly not to reality but to something that resists all symbolization and that due to its inaccessibility possesses a traumatic character. Moments of trauma as ,intrusions of the Real, but also modes of potentiality, of excessive enjoyment, which Lacan called jouissance, and of posthumousness, paradoxically, allow us to spot this Real in our everyday reality and in a given fictional work, as contemporary Lacanian scholars such as Slavoj i ek and Todd McGowan have detailed. Based on such new approaches to Lacan, the study argues that the focus the works under examination put on various representations of the Real indicates a shift of perspective in contemporary fiction and film away from the selfrefl exive text-centeredness of postmodern art and toward a new interest in ethical questions and the (material) conditions of reality in the twentyfi rst century. In this light, the study attests to Lacanian theory an ongoing relevance for contemporary literary and film criticism. - Contents: The Lacanian Real -- Traversing the Fantasy in the Twenty-First Century "bildungsroman": David Mitchell's "number9dream" -- Encounters with the Real and the Aesthetics of the Death Drive in Tom McCarthy's "Remainder" -- The Ethics of Desire in Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" -- Audiovisual Renderings of the Real in Gaspar Noé's " Enter the Void". ISBN 9783826062315 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782. Artikel-Nr. 1104564

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