Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction

By Mikko Tuhkanen

Book Overview

For the past sixty years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction guides the reader through this extensive oeuvre.

The chapters explore Bersani's engagement with psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Klein, Lacan), French and American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarm , James, Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual arts (Caravaggio, Almod var, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont).

Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko Tuhkanen seeks out the "fundamental notes" - the questions that we find and re-find - in Bersani's work across the decades.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623563593
• ISBN13: 9781623563592
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 344 Pages