Against Transgression - Tauchert, Ashley
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Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in criticalthought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the TwentiethCentury, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in theauthor's own turn from Transgression, AgainstTransgression poses an urgent question for the currentgeneration of literary critics.
* * Studies the origins of the contemporary proliferation of'Transgression' in the compelling thought experimentsof Georges Bataille, and follows its inauguration as a mode oflegitimate critical practice via Michel Foucault.
* Tracks the author's rejection of…mehr

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Both a controversial account of the transgressive turn in criticalthought characteristic of the moral turmoil of the TwentiethCentury, and a provocative study of maternal transfiguration in theauthor's own turn from Transgression, AgainstTransgression poses an urgent question for the currentgeneration of literary critics.

* * Studies the origins of the contemporary proliferation of'Transgression' in the compelling thought experimentsof Georges Bataille, and follows its inauguration as a mode oflegitimate critical practice via Michel Foucault.

* Tracks the author's rejection of Transgression as alegitimate critical methodology following her mother's deathand her own maternal transfiguration.

* Shows how the po-faced claims of critical methodology can beexploded by genuinely personal reflection.

* Considers the place of grief in the transformation ofthought.

* Argues against the model of the 'death of god' thatunderpins the transgressive turn in critical thought, and for amore courageous account of the inevitable return of numinousdesires.

* Considers the moral responsibility of the criticalwriter.

* Traces the transfiguration of the author from transgressivedaughter to maternal agent.
Autorenporträt
Ashley Tauchert is currently Head of the English Department in the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at the University of Exeter. She established the 'Institute for Feminist Theory and Research' with Gillian Howie in 1998, which hosted the international Third Wave Feminism conference at Exeter in 2001. She coordinates the 'Eighteenth-Century Narrative Project' and acts as Associate Editor for Critical Quarterly. She has come to enjoy a relatively quiet, reflective life in Devon.