Bataille
Published on 4. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 232 pages
978-0-333-91461-8 (ISBN)
Description
Bataille is the first book of its kind to offer lucid, diverse and relevant examples of ways of reading literary and cultural texts in the light of Bataille's work. The chapters explore the significance of Bataillean notions like heterology, general economy, transgression and eroticism through detailed readings of Shakespeare and early modern literature, Gothic and postmodernist fiction and popular movies. Bataillean concepts are situated in relation to the ideas of renowned critical and cultural theorists like Lacan, Derrida, Kristeva, Baudrillard and Deleuze, among others. Here the influence of Bataille is outlined in intellectual and historical terms, and the significance of his work can be seen for both contemporary and futural modes of cultural analysis.
Reviews / Votes
'More than a book 'on' Bataille; this is a book almost 'by' Bataille. It describes and enacts Bataille's workings, ranging from Petrarch to Sidney to Lacan, from Shakespeare to 'Twin Peaks'; and it does so with brio, verve and humour. Bataille was very well-read - and he is himself well-read bu Botting and Wilson here.' - Thomas Docherty, University of Kent at Canterbury 'Fred Botting's and Scott Wilson's Bataille answers the question every student of the twenty first century should be asking: why Bataille - now?' - Gregory Ulmer, University of FloridaMore details
Series
Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91461-8 (9780333914618)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-07713-4
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Persons
FRED BOTTING is Professor of English at Keele University.
SCOTT WILSON is Director for the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
SCOTT WILSON is Director for the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
Content
General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- LITERATURE.- W(h)ither Theory (?).- Writing, Heterology, Inner Experience.- Sovereign Abjection.- ECONOMY.- Between Lacan and Derrida.- From Caesar to Acéphale.- Pow Pow Pow.- CULTURE.- Signs of Evil.- Whore-text.- The Psychological Structure of Utopia.- Bibliography of works cited.- Bibliography of Bataille in English.- Annotated bibliography of critical works.- Index.