The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx-the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture.
The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx-the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture.
Yuan Yuan is Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos. He is the author of The Discourse of Fantasy: Theoretical and Fictional Perspectives, translator of Nobel Prize writer Saul Bellow's novel, The Adventures of Augie March, guest editor of The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: Special Issue on Dream and Narrative Space. He has contributed articles to Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Foreign Literatures, Studies of Psychoanalytic Theories, Readerly/Writerly Texts, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, European Joyce Studies Annual.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Return of the Grotesque Part One: The Primal Scenes Revisited: Archeology and Genealogy of the Grotesque Chapter 1. The Uncanny Subject between Aesthetics and Metaphysics Chapter 2. The Mystical Encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus Part Two: Reconfiguring the Grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus Chapter 3. The Enigmatic Sphinx: The Grotesque Other in Aesthetic Speculation Chapter 4. Oedipus Obsessed: Grotesque Desire and the Phantom Subject Part Three: The Subject of the Other(s) in Ontology and Heterologies Chapter 5. Oracles and Ghosts: The Dubious Others in Lacan's Discourse of the Subject Chapter 6. From Ontology to Heterologies: A Postmodern Perspective on Otherness Afterword: The Cyborg: A Post-human Return to the Grotesque Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Return of the Grotesque Part One: The Primal Scenes Revisited: Archeology and Genealogy of the Grotesque Chapter 1. The Uncanny Subject between Aesthetics and Metaphysics Chapter 2. The Mystical Encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus Part Two: Reconfiguring the Grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus Chapter 3. The Enigmatic Sphinx: The Grotesque Other in Aesthetic Speculation Chapter 4. Oedipus Obsessed: Grotesque Desire and the Phantom Subject Part Three: The Subject of the Other(s) in Ontology and Heterologies Chapter 5. Oracles and Ghosts: The Dubious Others in Lacan's Discourse of the Subject Chapter 6. From Ontology to Heterologies: A Postmodern Perspective on Otherness Afterword: The Cyborg: A Post-human Return to the Grotesque Bibliography Index
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