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• catalog abstract "How do aesthetic forms contribute to different kinds of cultural knowledge? Gabriele Schwab responds to this question with an analysis of the nature of subjectivity in modernist fiction. Drawing on French and Anglo-American psychoanalysis as well as reader response theory, she explores the relationship between language and subjectivity and in so doing illuminates the cultural politics and psychological functions implicit in the aesthetic practices and literary forms of modernism and postmodernism. The result of this exploration is a new understanding of the function of literature as a form of cultural knowledge. Schwab demonstrates how literature creates a transitional space where the boundaries of language and subjectivity are continually shaped and reshaped on both an individual and a cultural level. Modern and postmodern experimental texts, in particular, fulfill this function through the multifarious exploration of the boundaries of poetic language and their opening to the unconscious. Undertaking what she terms a literary ethnography of the decentered subject, Schwab examines five novels: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Schwab demonstrates how the aesthetic figurations of unconscious experience in these texts generate new forms of literary language and an aesthetic reception that is directly relevant to an increasingly global and hybridized culture. In her concluding chapter, which introduces the notion of "textual ecologies," Schwab analyzes the literary subjectivity of "transitional texts in light of such contemporary theories as systems theory, cybernetics, and the new physics. From this perspective, such texts not only reflect cultural practices but take part in shaping their change and innovation.".
• catalog contributor b5685309.
• catalog contributor b5685310.
• catalog contributor b5685311.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "1. The Insistence of the Subject -- 2. The Transitional Space of Literature -- 3. Aesthetics of Blankness in Moby-Dick -- 4. Eyeless Silence: Interior Dialogue in The Waves -- 5. "I, a Self the Sign"; Language and Subjectivity in Finnegans Wake -- 6. Not-I Fiction of a First Person Narrator: The Unnamable -- 7. Carnivalesque Apocalypse of the Holy Text: Gravity's Rainbow -- 8. Basic Configurations of Transitional Texts -- 9. Toward a Holonomy of Texts and Subjects.".
• catalog description "How do aesthetic forms contribute to different kinds of cultural knowledge? Gabriele Schwab responds to this question with an analysis of the nature of subjectivity in modernist fiction. Drawing on French and Anglo-American psychoanalysis as well as reader response theory, she explores the relationship between language and subjectivity and in so doing illuminates the cultural politics and psychological functions implicit in the aesthetic practices and literary forms of modernism and postmodernism.".
• catalog description "In her concluding chapter, which introduces the notion of "textual ecologies," Schwab analyzes the literary subjectivity of "transitional texts in light of such contemporary theories as systems theory, cybernetics, and the new physics. From this perspective, such texts not only reflect cultural practices but take part in shaping their change and innovation.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-273) and index.".
• catalog description "The result of this exploration is a new understanding of the function of literature as a form of cultural knowledge. Schwab demonstrates how literature creates a transitional space where the boundaries of language and subjectivity are continually shaped and reshaped on both an individual and a cultural level. Modern and postmodern experimental texts, in particular, fulfill this function through the multifarious exploration of the boundaries of poetic language and their opening to the unconscious.".
• catalog description "Undertaking what she terms a literary ethnography of the decentered subject, Schwab examines five novels: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable, and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Schwab demonstrates how the aesthetic figurations of unconscious experience in these texts generate new forms of literary language and an aesthetic reception that is directly relevant to an increasingly global and hybridized culture.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 280 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Subjects without selves.".
• catalog identifier "0674853814 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Subjects without selves.".
• catalog isPartOf "Harvard studies in comparative literature ; 43".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Subjects without selves.".
• catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "823/.91209 20".
• catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries.".
• catalog subject "Modernism (Literature)".
• catalog subject "PR888.M63 S39 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Insistence of the Subject -- 2. The Transitional Space of Literature -- 3. Aesthetics of Blankness in Moby-Dick -- 4. Eyeless Silence: Interior Dialogue in The Waves -- 5. "I, a Self the Sign"; Language and Subjectivity in Finnegans Wake -- 6. Not-I Fiction of a First Person Narrator: The Unnamable -- 7. Carnivalesque Apocalypse of the Holy Text: Gravity's Rainbow -- 8. Basic Configurations of Transitional Texts -- 9. Toward a Holonomy of Texts and Subjects.".
• catalog title "Subjects without selves : transitional texts in modern fiction / Gabriele Schwab.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".