Oscillations of Literary Theory by A C Facundo

Oscillations of Literary Theory by A C Facundo

"Armed with a full repertoire of psychoanalytic resources, Facundo navigates the paranoid-reparative debate in literary studies with greater finesse than any critic I've readReframing current critical impasses, Oscillations of Literary Theory makes substantial contributions to narrative theory and aesthetics by illuminating their crucial connections with sexuality and pleasure. Facundo offers us here nothing less than a new method of reading queerly." — Tim Dean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

"This book seeks to understand hermeneutic imperatives and flights from these in terms of paranoid and reparative drives (as distinct from affect). It is a bold and ambitious project, but Facundo brings to it an exceptional array of skills. I am impressed by the author's close, subtle, and very canny readings of both theoretical and literary texts and by her demonstration of the complexity, variety, and centrality of ideas and operations of paranoia and the reparative in writings from Freud to the present. Oscillations revitalizes psychoanalytic criticism in its distinctly queer relation to psychoanalysis, a relation that yields surprising and refreshing insights." — Stephen M. Barber, coeditor of Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory

A. C. Facundo is an independent scholar, who received a PhD in English from York University in Toronto and continued as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.