| Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini Contributor(s): Collier, Peter (Editor), Brisolin, Viola (Author) |
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ISBN: 3034302312 ISBN-13: 9783034302319 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $76.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2011014270 |
| Series: European Connections |
| Physical Information: 297 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini were two of the most eclectic cultural personalities of the past century, as elusive as they were influential. Despite the glaring differences between them, they also shared a number of preoccupations, obsessions and creative approaches. Certain themes recur insistently in the works of both men: the pervasiveness of power and the violence inherent in the modernising process; the possibility of freedom and subjective autonomy; and the role of creative practices in a society configured as a desert of alienation. Despite this common ground, no systematic attempt at reading the two authors together has been made before now. This book explores this uncharted territory by comparing these two intellectual figures, focusing in particular on the similarities and productive tensions that emerge in their late works. Psychoanalysis plays a key role in the articulation of this comparison. |