Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask iek

摘要

Reading the real : Žižek's literary materialism / Anna Kornbluh -- Looking awry : Žižek's ridiculous sublime / Shawn Alfrey -- The bankruptcy of historicism : introducing disruption into literary studies / Todd McGowan -- The symptoms of ideology critique; or, How we learned to enjoy the symptom and ignore the fetish / Russell Sbriglia -- Concrete universality and the end of revolutionary politics : a Žižekian approach to postcolonial women's writings / Jamil Khader -- A robot runs through it : Žižek and ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman -- Shakespeare after Žižek : social antagonism and ideological exclusion in The merchant of Venice / Geoff Boucher -- Beyond symbolic authority : La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the aesthetics of the real / Louis-Paul Willis -- Wake-up call : Žižek, Burroughs, and fantasy in the Sleeper awakened plot / Daniel Beaumont -- Courtly love hate is undead : sadomasochistic privilege in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Paul Megna -- The minimal event : subjective destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett / Slavoj Žižek