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Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from Transgression, Against Transgression poses an urgent question for the current generation of literary critics. .

Table of Contents
Introduction: reflections of a transgressive daughter and her maternal transfiguration.

1. Preface Against Transgression: Bataillean transgression and its resonance in contemporary critical thought.

2. Minerva’s Owl: the quest for feminine agency and the freedom of constraint.

3. ‘A Serious and Dangerous Matter’: ‘Transgression’ and the death of god.

4. Preface to Compassion.

Index.

Against Transgression

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 13/06/2008
      ISBN13: 9781405169899, 978-1405169899
      ISBN10: 1405169893

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in critical thought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the Twentieth Century, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in the author's own turn from Transgression, Against Transgression poses an urgent question for the current generation of literary critics. .

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: reflections of a transgressive daughter and her maternal transfiguration.

      1. Preface Against Transgression: Bataillean transgression and its resonance in contemporary critical thought.

      2. Minerva’s Owl: the quest for feminine agency and the freedom of constraint.

      3. ‘A Serious and Dangerous Matter’: ‘Transgression’ and the death of god.

      4. Preface to Compassion.

      Index.

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