Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek''s work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek''s practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian ps...