Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature [Hardcover]

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical and cultural theory,Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literatureis a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.

Introduction
Ian Buchanan, Tim Matts, and Aidan Tynan  Towards a Schizoanalytic Criticism

1. Towards a Schizoanalysis of Literature
Ian Buchanan  The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs
Robert Porter and Iain Mackenzie  The Drama of Schizoanalysis: On Deleuze and Guattari's Method

2. The Ethics of Style
Joe Hughes  The Schizoanalysis of Literature: Austen, Behn and the Scene of Desire
Donald Cross  What Is Nonstyle in What Is Philosophy?
Ruben Borg  Deleuze on Genre: Modernity between the Tragic and the Novel

3. Schizoanalytic Interventions
Garin Dowd  Is Critique et Clinique Schizoanalytic?: Schizoanalysis and Deleuze's Critical and Clinical Project
Alan Bourassa  The Analyst and the Nomad: Lacan, Deleuze and Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K
Lorna Burns  Razing the Wall: Deleuze, Ranciere and the Politics of New World Literatures

4. Literature and Life After Deleuze
Benjamin Noys  'Love and Napalm: Export USA': Schizoanalysis, Acceleration, and Contemporary American Literature
Benjamin Woodard  Negarestani in R'lyeh

Bibliography
Index

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