The Barbara Johnson reader: the surprise of otherness
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Beteilige Person: Johnson, Barbara 1947-2009 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Personhood and other objects: the figural dispute with philosophy by Judith Butler -- "Barbara Johnson" by Barbara Johnson -- Reading theory as literature, literature as theory -- The critical difference: Barthes/Balzac -- Translator's introduction to dissemination (abridged) -- Poetry and syntax: what the gypsy knew -- A hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove: obscurity in walden -- Strange fits: poe and wordsworth on the nature of poetic language -- The frame of reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida -- Race, sexuality, gender -- Euphemism, understatement, and the passive voice: a genealogy of Afro-American poetry -- Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in their eyes were watching God -- Moses and intertexuality: Sigmund Freud, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Bible -- Lesbian spectacles: reading Sula, passing, Thelma and Louise, and the accused -- Bringing out D. A. Miller -- Correctional facilities -- My monster/my self -- Language, personhood, ethics -- Introduction to freedom and interpretation (abridged) -- Muteness envy -- Apostrophe, animation, and abortion -- Anthropomorphism in lyric and law -- Using people: kant with winnicott -- Ego sum game -- Melville's fist: the execution of Billy Budd -- Pedagogy and translation -- Nothing fails like success -- Bad writing -- Teaching deconstructively -- Poison or remedy? Paul de man as pharmakon -- Taking fidelity philosophically -- The task of the translator -- Teaching ignorance: l'ecole des femmes -- Afterword: Barbara's signature by Shoshana Felman
Umfang:XXXI, 449 S.
ISBN:9780822354192
0822354195
9780822354031
0822354039