Acts of Enjoyment Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject

Name: Acts of Enjoyment Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject
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ISBN: 9780822959625

ISBN-10: 0822959623

ISBN-13: 9780822959625

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Rickert

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Why are today's students not realizing their potential as critical thinkers? Although educators have, for two decades, incorporated contemporary cultural studies into the teaching of composition and rhetoric, many students lack the powers of self-expression that are crucial for effecting social change.Acts of Enjoymentpresents a critique of current pedagogies and introduces a psychoanalytical approach in teaching composition and rhetoric. Thomas Rickert builds upon the advances of cultural studies and its focus on societal trends and broadens this view by placing attention on the conscious and subconscious thought of the individual. By introducing the cultural theory work of Slavoj Zizek,…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 5/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Thomas Rickert is assistant professor of English at Purdue University.



Acknowledgments


Prospective



On Belatedness and the Return of the Subject; or The View from What Will Have Been



Toward a Neo-Lacanian Theory of Discourse



In the Funhouse: Mirroring Subjects and Objects



Politica Phantasmagoria: Ideology in Cultural Studies Rhetorics



Breaking the Law: Resistance and the Problem of Limits



"Hands Up! You're Free": Pedagogy, Affect, and Transformation


Retrospective


Notes


Bibliography


Index