Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces

By Sarah Wood

Speaks to and helps us address where we are now, institutionally, environmentally and in thinking about reading

Without Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748669973
• ISBN13: 9780748669974
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"