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Author:   Yuan Yuan
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780761866626

ISBN 10:   0761866620
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   12 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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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.

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