M. Bryden, Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

Mary BRYDEN

Gilles Deleuze: Travels in Literature

New York, Palgrave Macmillan

2007, 256 p.

Description:

Gilles Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Deleuze repeatedly asserted that he was not a literary critic, and yet he provides exhilarating and brilliantly original interactions with literary texts. This study sets up in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and some of the writers who fascinated him (T.E. Lawrence, Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Tournier, Beckett). Using travel as a transversal theme, the book demonstrates the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference when applied to literary texts.

Author bio :

Mary Bryden is Professor of European Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She was previously Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Reading, and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation. Her extensive publications on Samuel Beckett and Gilles Deleuze include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God, and the edited collection Deleuze and Religion.

Table of contents :

Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Introduction Travelling by Camel: T.E. Lawrence and the Portability of Shame * Travel by Sea: Herman Melville * Travelling Inwards: D.H. Lawrence * Land-to-Air Travel: Michel Tournier * Travelling on Foot and Bicycle: Self-Locomotion in Samuel Beckett * Afterword: Strobic Travelling with Hélène Cixous * Works Cited