Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in continental philosophy, literary theory and critical and cultural theory, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature is a cutting edge volume, featuring some of the most original voices in the field, setting the agenda for future research.

Ian Buchanan is Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of Deleuzism (2000) and the editor of Deleuze Studies. Tim Matts was formerly Research Associate with the Department of Decay at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. Aidan Tynan teaches English literature and critical and cultural theory at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms.

Introduction Ian Buchanan, Tim Matts, and Aidan Tynan - Towards a Schizoanalytic Criticism 1. Towards a Schizoanalysis of Literature Ian Buchanan - The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs Robert Porter and Iain Mackenzie - The Drama of Schizoanalysis: On Deleuze and Guattari's Method 2. The Ethics of Style Joe Hughes - The Schizoanalysis of Literature: Austen, Behn and the Scene of Desire Donald Cross - What Is Nonstyle in What Is Philosophy? Ruben Borg - Deleuze on Genre: Modernity between the Tragic and the Novel 3. Schizoanalytic Interventions Garin Dowd - Is Critique et Clinique Schizoanalytic?: Schizoanalysis and Deleuze's Critical and Clinical Project Alan Bourassa - The Analyst and the Nomad: Lacan, Deleuze and Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K Lorna Burns - Razing the Wall: Deleuze, Ranciere and the Politics of New World Literatures 4. Literature and Life After Deleuze Benjamin Noys - 'Love and Napalm: Export USA': Schizoanalysis, Acceleration, and Contemporary American Literature Benjamin Woodard - Negarestani in R'lyeh Bibliography Index