Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: The Collected Essays and Autobiography of Allon White - Hardcover

White, Allon

9780198112969: Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: The Collected Essays and Autobiography of Allon White

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198112963 ISBN 13: 9780198112969

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Before his death from leukaemia at the age of 37, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains in an extended introduction, transformed cultural studies in the 1980s.
Allon White's central concerns - with writing, carnival, the body, hysteria, and memory - recur with differing inflections in the pieces collected here. Wide-ranging in scope, the essays move with fluency from an analysis of the work of Julia Kristeva to a discussion of language and location in Dickens's Bleak House, from a Thomas Pynchon short story to the 'seriousness' of academic language. Other pieces deal with Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon, and with Mikhail Bakhtin, a major influence on Allon White's thinking. Included too is the poignant autobiographical fragment, 'Too Close to the Bone'. An Afterword by Jacqueline Rose deals with the links between theory and autobiography, between the academic and personal writings in the book.
A memorial to Allon White's life and work, Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing will be essential reading for all working within literary and cultural studies.

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Before his death from leukemia a the the age of 37, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains in an extended introduction, transformed cultural studies in the 1980s.

About the Author:

The late Allon White was Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex (1980-8).

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