Deleuze and American literature: affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy

Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison. INDICE: Literature, Character and the Human - Wharton's Aesthetics and theEthics of Affect - Invisible Man: Affect, History, Race - Cormac McCarthy andthe Event of the Human - The Moral Singularity: Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and McCarthy's Blood Meridian - Absalom, Absalom! Time and the Virtual - Riders of the Virtual Sage: Zane Grey, Cormac McCarthy and the Transformation of the Popular Western - Conclusion: The Ethic of the Nonhuman

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61656-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés