Sarah Wood

Without Mastery (eBook, PDF)

Reading and Other Forces

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Without Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.Key Features:Provides a challenge and an alternative to 'masterful' or technical approaches to theoryDemonstrates that writing and power can work productively togetherDraws on the power of poetry and fiction to help us think and puts this to work in the book's own practice of creative critical writingPresents original new readings of canonical literary writers

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748669981
• Artikelnr.: 45434190

Autorenporträt

Sarah Wood teaches English literature and literary theory at the University of Kent. She is an Editor of Oxford Literary Review and of Angelaki. She is also a trainee at the Guild of Psychotherapists in London

Inhaltsangabe

Through the Reader
Inventing the Reader
Try Thinking As If Perhaps
A Mere Instinctive Deconstruction
Close to the Earth
Beyond Me Nowhere But This Earth
Edit
Reading Matters
Some Thing, Some One, Some Ghost (About the Fires of Writing)
Nightshift
Too Late To Begin?