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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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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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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