{"product_id":"unspeakable-subjects-9780804727785","title":"Unspeakable Subjects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernitythe subject''s extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among othersarise as strategies for evading a profound redefinition of the nature of \u003ci\u003eevents\u003c\/i\u003e in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNegotiating the often competing claims of rhetorical reading and cultural analysis, Lezra reassesses the grounds of literary and philosophical history as a materialist practice of eventful reading. His original accounts of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Descartes''s \u003ci\u003eSecond Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRegulae\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e tack between linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural materialist approaches to define and discuss the double aspect of the event in early modern \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What one sees in \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is Jacques Lezra's uniquely personal conjugation of theoretical interests with the resisting pressures of history, literary history, and philology. I find no convenient label to describe his brand of reading, but I strongly suspect that he will be one of the critics who redefines and rehistoricizes literary theory in the coming decades. Lezra is, to my mind, one of the most gifted intellects of his generation of literary scholars.\" -- Mary Malcolm Gaylord * Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\"The range of Lezra's admirable work is immense, but so is the historical scholarship. Context is never lost from view; apparent anachronisms turn out to afford brilliant reflections on the complicated temporality of reading. Unspeakable Subjects does not seek to understand, not does it seek a licence for the contemporary critic to say whatever he\/she pleases. It asks what has become of Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes in our hands, and it shows, in devastating detail and often with considerable wit, how much of us was already in the texts of those early writers.\" -- Michael Wood, Straut Professor of English * Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: eventful reading; 1. Freud's sickle; 2. The ontology of the letter in Descartes's second meditation; 3. The matter of naming in Don Quixote; 4. Cervantes' hand; 5. The appearance of history in Measure for Measure; Notes; Bibliography; Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405510975831,"sku":"9780804727785","price":67.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804727785.jpg?v=1730492471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unspeakable-subjects-9780804727785","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}