5. Inhuman Irony: The Event of the Postmodern

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Deleuze and Literature 1
4. 1. Deleuze and Signs 14
5. 2. How Deleuze can help us make Literature work 34
6. 3. The Paterson Plateau: Deleuze, Guattari and William Carlos Williams 57
7. 4. Underworld: The People are Missing 80
8. 5. Inhuman Irony: The Event of the Postmodern 100
9. 6. On the Uses and Abuses of Literature for Life 135
10. 7. 'A Question of an Axiomatic of Desires': The Deleuzian Imagination of Geoliterature 167
11. 8. Transvestism, Drag and Becomings: A Deleuzian Analysis of the Fictions of Timothy Findley 194
12. 9. Only Intensities Subsist: Samuel Beckett's Nohow On 229
13. 10. Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death 251
14. 11. I and My Deleuze 263
15. Notes on Contributors 283
16. Index 286