{"product_id":"9781438463100","title":"Oscillations of Literary Theory: The Paranoid Imperative and Queer Reparative","description":"\u003ci\u003eRevises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOscillations of Literary Theory\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov’s \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e, Danielewski’s \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, Findley’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wars\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ishiguro’s \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e are included, which model this new approach to reading.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139877650672,"sku":"9781438463100","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438463100_p0.jpg?v=1763756496","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438463100","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}