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- catalog abstract ""Reading the Symptom is concerned with naturalism; it is also necessarily concerned with capitalism as the complex-structuring whole within which naturalism operates and from which it cannot be disengaged. Tightly connected with this polemic assertion is a methodological proposition: naturalismand by extension capitalism - is characterized not only by its logic, but also by its asymmetrical dynamism. Focusing on Frank Norris's McTeague (and its companion piece Vandover and the Brute) and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, this study argues that naturalism puts into question the very system it exemplifies. Naturalism has a transgressive element at its core, the appreciation of which calls for a special attention to the role and consequence of the emergent, the aleatory, and the stochastic. To explore the interplay between the systematic and the asystematic is not only to come to the conclusion that naturalism is an open, creative system, but also to realize that uneven development is the basic law of social formations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11211469.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Reading the Symptom is concerned with naturalism; it is also necessarily concerned with capitalism as the complex-structuring whole within which naturalism operates and from which it cannot be disengaged. Tightly connected with this polemic assertion is a methodological proposition: naturalismand by extension capitalism - is characterized not only by its logic, but also by its asymmetrical dynamism. Focusing on Frank Norris's McTeague (and its companion piece Vandover and the Brute) and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, this study argues that naturalism puts into question the very system it exemplifies. Naturalism has a transgressive element at its core, the appreciation of which calls for a special attention to the role and consequence of the emergent, the aleatory, and the stochastic. To explore the interplay between the systematic and the asystematic is not only to come to the conclusion that naturalism is an open, creative system, but also to realize that uneven development is the basic law of social formations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-184).".
- catalog description "Preface / Jean-Joseph Goux -- 1. American Literary Naturalism and the Limits of Revisionism -- 2. Ludic Naturalism: Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Vandover and the Brute -- 3. The Strategy of Desire in McTeague. The Economico-Libidinal Nexus of Desire. Passions for Drinks, Appetites for Food, and Orgies of Gold. The Economy of Language and the Language of Economy. The Semiotic Violence of Desire. Syntactic Involutions and Negative Precipitations. Tarrying with the (Il)logic of Capitalism -- 4. A Rhythmanalytical Approach to the Problematic of Everydayness in Sister Carrie -- 5. Reading the Symptom: History without Teleology.".
- catalog extent "xii, 184 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Reading the symptom.".
- catalog identifier "082043910X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reading the symptom.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 15.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern American literature : new approaches, 1078-0521 ; vol. 15".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Reading the symptom.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.40912 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Capitalism and literature United States History.".
- catalog subject "Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Sister Carrie.".
- catalog subject "Naturalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. McTeague.".
- catalog subject "Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. Vandover and the brute.".
- catalog subject "PS374.N29 Z39 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Jean-Joseph Goux -- 1. American Literary Naturalism and the Limits of Revisionism -- 2. Ludic Naturalism: Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Vandover and the Brute -- 3. The Strategy of Desire in McTeague. The Economico-Libidinal Nexus of Desire. Passions for Drinks, Appetites for Food, and Orgies of Gold. The Economy of Language and the Language of Economy. The Semiotic Violence of Desire. Syntactic Involutions and Negative Precipitations. Tarrying with the (Il)logic of Capitalism -- 4. A Rhythmanalytical Approach to the Problematic of Everydayness in Sister Carrie -- 5. Reading the Symptom: History without Teleology.".
- catalog title "Reading the symptom : Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the dynamics of capitalism / Mohamed Zayani ; preface by Jean-Joseph Goux.".
- catalog type "text".