{"product_id":"the-subjectivity-effect-in-western-literary-tradition-essays-toward-the-release-of-shakespeares-will-october-books-9780262061360","title":"The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays Toward the Release of Shakespeare's Will (October Books)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays Toward the Release of Shakespeare's Will (October Books)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Fineman, Joel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780262061360.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called \"making strange.\" His essays are among the strongest demonstrations of how structures—whether linguistic, visual, or architectural—generate large and elaborate systems of meaning. Using examples drawn from literature—Chaucer, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde—Fineman creates parables of how language has come to constitute the modern subject (ourselves) as a set of its \"effects.\"\n\nCombining formidable learning with theoretical sophistication that is at once philosophical, linguistic, and psychoanalytical, Fineman draws from the most familiar work verbal details that lead to startling new interpretations, challenging Freud or making original applications of Lacan. The repercussion of his writings on theory and on nonliterary discourse is considerable, particularly among critics engaged in showing how artistic practice can be understood, structurally, to signify.\n\nJoel Fineman was Professor of English Literature at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nThe Essays: The Structure of Allegorical Desire. The Significance of Literature: The Importance of Being Earnest. \"The Pas de Calais\": Freud, the Transference, and the Sense of Womans Humor. The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction. Shakespeares \"Perjurd Eye\". The Turn of the Shrew. The Sound of 0 in Othello: The Real of the Tragedy of Desire. Shakespeares Will: The Temporality of Rape. Shakespeares Ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45251958865973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262061368","price":348.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262061360_7f47c005-cf57-4018-893f-21c010312a02.jpg?v=1779921867","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-subjectivity-effect-in-western-literary-tradition-essays-toward-the-release-of-shakespeares-will-october-books-9780262061360","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}