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Without Mastery

Reading and Other Forces
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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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.
Key Features:
Provides a challenge and an alternative to ‘masterful’ or technical approaches to theoryDemonstrates that writing and power can work productively togetherDraws on the power of poetry and fiction to help us think and puts this to work in the book's own practice of creative critical writingPresents original new readings of canonical literary writers

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

    v
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    Series Editor’s Preface

    vii
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    Acknowledgements

    ix
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    Through the Reader

    1
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    Inventing the Reader

    14
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    Try Thinking As If Perhaps

    24
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    A Mere Instinctive Deconstruction

    42
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    Close to the Earth

    53
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    Beyond Me Nowhere But This Earth

    66
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    Edit

    75
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    Reading Matters

    85
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    Some Thing, Some One, Some Ghost (About the Fires of Writing)

    102
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    Nightshift

    115
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    Too Late To Begin?

    134
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    Notes

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    Index

    164
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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
February 21, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780748669981
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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208
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748669981
eBook ISBN: 9780748669981
Keywords for this book
Literary Studies
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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