Contaminations Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science and Film
| Author/creator | Mack, Michael, 1959- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated [Distributor] |
| Description | 256 p. 06.400 x 09.200 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
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| Summary | Annotation This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with theirpurported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated - what has only been implied - within postmodern, poststructuralist and deconstructive theory.Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of 'the novels of Henry James, Herman Melville and H. G. Wells question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective. It offers fresh readings of classic films andliterary texts, including Vertigo and Moby Dick, with the aim to ground theoretical insights in close analysis. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781474411363 |
| ISBN | 1474411363 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781474411363 |
| Stock number | 00006328 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |