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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 theory Demonstrates that writing and power can work productively together Draws 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 writing Presents original new readings of canonical literary writers

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Sarah Wood's 'Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces' is a matchless book, at once breathtaking and inspiring. -- Clare Connors, Modern Language Review, Vol 111, Part 1 Reading with Wood leaves one enriched. -- Jemma Deer, Textual Practice, Volume 30, Issue 1

Sarah Wood's Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces is a matchless book, at once breathtaking and inspiring.--Clare Connors, University of East Anglia Modern Language Review, Vol 111, Part 1 reading with Wood leaves one enriched. --Jemma Deer Textual Practice, Volume 30, Issue 1

Sarah Wood's 'Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces' is a matchless book, at once breathtaking and inspiring. -- Clare Connors, Modern Language Review, Vol 111, Part 1

Sarah Wood's 'Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces' is a matchless book, at once breathtaking and inspiring. -- Clare Connors, Modern Language Review, Vol 111, Part 1 Reading with Wood leaves one enriched. -- Jemma Deer, Textual Practice, Volume 30, Issue 1

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Sarah Wood teaches English literature and literary theory at the University of Kent. She is Editor of Oxford Literary Review and of Angelaki.

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