Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Paul Ardoin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including Samuel Beckett: The Complete Short Prose, 1928-1989 (1996), The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV: The Shorter Plays (1999), A Companion To Samuel Beckett (2010), Beckett after Beckett (ed. with Anthony Uhlmann, 2006), The Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Life, Works, and Thought (with C. J. Ackerly, 2006), The Grove Press Reader, 1951-2001 (2001), Modernism, Censorship and the Politics of Publishing (2000). Laci Mattison is Visiting Lecturer of English Literature at Florida State University, USA.

• AbbreviationsContributorsSeries Preface, Understanding Philosophy, Understanding ModernismS. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci MattisonIntroduction, Gilles Deleuze and the Staging of PhilosophyS. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Paul Ardoin, Florida State University, USA, and University of Antwerp, Belgium; and Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USAPart 1 Conceptualizing Deleuze1 Deleuze’s Proust and Signs: The Literary Partial ObjectPatrick M. Bray, Ohio State University, USA2 Life as Method: The Invention of Problems in Deleuze’s BergsonismWahida Khandker, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK3 Diagrammatic Modernism: Abstraction, Immanence, and the Positions of StyleJoe Hughes, University of Melbourne, Australia4 Reading Anti-Oedipus: Literature, Schizophrenia, and Universal HistoryAidan Tynan, Cardiff University, UK5 On the Flyleaves of Modernism: Deleuze and Guattari’s KafkaJason Skeet, Cardiff University, UK6 Intensive Multiplicities in A Thousand PlateausAudrone Žukauskaite, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and Vilnius University, Lithuania7 The Movement-Image, The Time-Image, and the Paradoxes of Literary and Other ModernismsGarin Dowd, University of West London, UK8 What Is Philosophy?, or Eternal ReturnS. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA9 Essays Critical and Clinical: The Book as a ‘Whole’Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaPart 2 Deleuze and Aesthetics10 “A strange respect for the individual”: Gilles Deleuze and Hardy the NovelistJohn Hughes, University of Gloucestershire, UK11 Entangled in Nature: Deleuze’s Modernism, Woolf’s Philosophy, and Spinoza’s EthologyDerek Ryan, University of Kent, UK12 Dancing with Deleuze: Modernism and the Imperceptible AnimalCarrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA13 Henry Miller and Deleuze’s “Strange Anglo-American Literature”Andrew Marzoni, University of Minnesota, UK14 Schizoanalytic Modernism: The Case of Antonin ArtaudIan Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia15 Deleuze’s Perspectival Theory of Modernism and the BaroqueChristopher Langlois, University of Western Ontario, Toronto16 Incorporeal ModernismClaire Colebrook, Penn State University, USAPart 3 Glossary17 Abstract MachineAden L. Evens, Dartmouth College, USA18 AffectMickey Vallee, University of Lethbridge, Canada19 AssemblageJustin Litaker, Purdue University, USA20 BecomingJason Skeet, Cardiff University, UK21 Body Without OrgansIan Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia22 DesireMarco Altamirano, Louisiana State University, USA23 DeterritorializationJohn Mac Kilgore, Florida State University, USA24 MemoryNadine Boljkovac, Brown University, USA25 Minor LiteratureChristopher Langlois, University of Western Ontario, Canada26 Plane of ImmanenceJon K. Shaw, Goldsmiths College, UK27 RhizomeEugene W. Holland, Ohio State University, USA28 SchizoanalysisAnna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK29 StutteringMickey Vallee, University of Lethbridge, Canada30 Time-ImageNadine Boljkovac, Brown University, USAIndex

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism is a significant moment in the ongoing exploration of the relationship between Deleuze and modernism ... Although each essay focuses on a different aspect of Deleuze’s philosophy and of modernist tendencies, there are overlappings and recurring themes in them, and together they offer a coherent, yet diverse image for the reader, a thorough and compelling critical engagement with Deleuze’s modernism.