Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

by M. Bryden

Overview

Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349355174
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARY BRYDEN is Professor of European Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Reading, and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, and the edited collection Deleuze and Religion.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Travelling by Camel: T.E. Lawrence and the Portability of Shame Travel by Sea: Herman Melville Travelling Inwards: D.H. Lawrence Land-to-Air Travel: Michel Tournier Travelling on Foot and Bicycle: Self-Locomotion in Samuel Beckett Afterword: Strobic Travelling with Hélène Cixous Works Cited

Editorial Reviews

'...this is a highly thoughtful book in every sense of the word. It is a pleasure to read and constitutes a very valuable addition to the discussion of Deleuze and literature.' - Mairéad Hanrahan, French Studies

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