"Crawling through these cracks" : the apocalyptic body in contemporary literatures of transgression
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: English, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Foster, Wendy Christine
issued: 2010-01-16T20:51:57Z
issued: 2006
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Apocalypse narratives and their categorical perversions provide a symptomatology of Western cultural subject-formation, and chart out the subject’s anxious response to his own desire for transcendence. Through close readings of four contemporary American authors: Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Hubert Selby Jr., the generic matrices of apocalypse as a formal literary and cultural structure (or set of structures) are examined. These contemporary apocalypses, contextualized with and against their historical antecedents, the Book of Daniel and Revelation, disclose what I theorize as a logic of the terminal subject--the transgressive confrontation of the subject with his own condition of disappearance. Mobilizing psychoanalytic and poststructuralist critical legacies I seek, here, to open up the field of apocalypse studies to a renewed investigatory practice, which would engage both the theological as well as secular representational content of end-time practices and discourse.
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note: awling through these cracks:" THE A P O C A L Y P T I C B O D Y IN C O N T E M P O R A R Y LITERATURES OF TRANSGRESSION by W E N D Y CHRISTINE FOSTER B.A. (Hon.), The University of Windsor, 1995 M.A. , The University of Windsor, 1998 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE F A C U L T Y OF G R A D U A T E STUDIES (English) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH C O L U M B I A April 2006 © Wendy Christine Foster, 2006 11 Abstract Apocalypse narratives and their categorical perversions provide a symptomatology of Western cultural subject-formation, and chart out the subject's anxious response to his own desire for transcendence. Through close readings of four contemporary American authors: Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Hubert Selby Jr., the generic matrices of apocalypse as a formal literary and cultural structure (or set of structures) are examined. These contemporary apocalypses, contextualized with and against their historical antecedents, the Book of Daniel and Revelation, disclose what I theorize as a logic of the terminal subject - the transgressive confrontation of the subject with his own condition of disappearance. Mobilizing psychoanalytic and poststructuralist critical legacies I seek, here, to open up the field of apocalypse studies to a renewed investigatory practice, which would engage both the theological as well as secular representational content of end-time practices and discourse. Table of Contents ABSTRACT II TABLE OF CONTENTS Ill ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IV CHAPTER ONE -"CRAWLING THROUGH THESE CRACKS:" THE APOCALYPTIC BODY IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURES OF TRANSGRESSION 1 INTRODUCTION: THE APOCALYPTIC DRIFT 1 APOCALYPSE AS GENRE: THE STRUCTURATION OF CRISIS 2 DANGEROUS LIAISONS: APOCALYPSE AND TRANSGRESSION .' 14 RADICALIZING GENRE: MONADS AND MEMES IN APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE 16 THEEND-MEME: TEOTWAWKI 21 To HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGMENT OF GOD: CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC RESSENTIMENT 25…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2006-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0092945
language: eng
degree discipline: English
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18480