Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film
- ISBN-10
- 1474470491
- ISBN-13
- 9781474470490
- Category
- Dialectical materialism
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-08-05
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Author
- Michael Mack
Description
This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated ́82 what has only been implied ́82 within postmodern, poststructuralist and deconstructive theory. Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of 'the novels of Henry James, Herman Melville and H. G. Wells question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective. It offers fresh readings of classic films and literary texts, including Vertigo and Moby Dick, with the aim to ground theoretical insights in close analysis.
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- 2016-02-02
- 240 pages
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- 2017-08
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Edinburgh Critical History of Christian Theology
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Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film
By Michael MackThis book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity.