Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx

Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980’s, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx—the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture. In Greek mythology, Oedipus, the epitome of Western logos, solved the Sphinx’s riddle with a single word, “Man.” This evocation for the phantom of a solipsistic subject discloses, in effect, Oedipus’ latent grotesque disparity. The book explores the encounter of this unlikely pair to inquire the riddling relationship between the singular subject and the grotesque other in the context of modern discourses of the subject and postmodern theories of the other.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-12
Mått158 x 239 x 23 mm
Vikt553 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761866626

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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.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Return of the GrotesquePart One: The Primal Scenes Revisited: Archeology and Genealogy of the GrotesqueChapter 1. The Uncanny Subject between Aesthetics and MetaphysicsChapter 2. The Mystical Encounter between the Sphinx and OedipusPart Two: Reconfiguring the Grotesque between the Sphinx and OedipusChapter 3. The Enigmatic Sphinx: The Grotesque Other in Aesthetic SpeculationChapter 4. Oedipus Obsessed: Grotesque Desire and the Phantom SubjectPart Three: The Subject of the Other(s) in Ontology and HeterologiesChapter 5. Oracles and Ghosts: The Dubious Others in Lacan’s Discourse of the SubjectChapter 6. From Ontology to Heterologies: A Postmodern Perspective on Otherness Afterword: The Cyborg: A Post-human Return to the GrotesqueBibliographyIndex

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