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Without Mastery - Reading and Other Forces (Hardcover)
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Without Mastery - Reading and Other Forces (Hardcover)
Series: The Frontiers of Theory
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This is an exploration of the possibilities of letting go of our
inner desire for control. Without Mastery constantly engages the
pleasure, rigour and strangeness of reading, invoking the
forcefulness of the Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity and
assorted literary animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore
the inner workings of our desire for mastery, and especially the
omnipotence of thoughts. For Sarah Wood the thought of Derrida,
Freud, Cixous, Plato and others is a kind of dramatic interaction,
a message to be received emotionally and responded to inventively
in writing that is both critical and creative. The destructiveness
of masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental
crisis and continues to deny the facts. Reading, this book makes
clear, teaches us to engage with the unthinkable. It provides a
challenge and an alternative to 'masterful' or technical approaches
to theory. It demonstrates that writing and power can work
productively together. It draws on the power of poetry and fiction
to help us think and puts this to work in the book's own practice
of creative critical writing. It presents original new readings of
canonical literary writers.
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