{"title":"The Poetics of Defeat","authors":"Jay E. Cantor","doi":"10.1215/01903659-9789780","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In this version of a talk at the Norman O. Brown conference, Jay Cantor traces the path from Life Against Death into and through Love's Body to outline the liberatory impulse that animated Brown's entire opus. The anti-identitarian character of this liberation found Brown turning on his earlier work—Love's Body was a torpedo aimed at Life Against Death—but never relinquishing his deep commitment, made in full cognizance of the psychic, historical, and political inducements to despair, to new poetics, new politics, and new corporeality.","PeriodicalId":46332,"journal":{"name":"Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9789780","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this version of a talk at the Norman O. Brown conference, Jay Cantor traces the path from Life Against Death into and through Love's Body to outline the liberatory impulse that animated Brown's entire opus. The anti-identitarian character of this liberation found Brown turning on his earlier work—Love's Body was a torpedo aimed at Life Against Death—but never relinquishing his deep commitment, made in full cognizance of the psychic, historical, and political inducements to despair, to new poetics, new politics, and new corporeality.
期刊介绍:
Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, approaches problems in these areas from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. boundary 2 remains committed to understanding the present and approaching the study of national and international culture and politics through literature and the human sciences.