What is it about?
Looking at Deleuze and Guattari’s work, this article argues that far from being anti-textuality and meaning, they offer a clear theory of reading. Key to this approach is engaging with their often noted but rarely explained “difficult style”. This reading is made as a challenge to ontologically focused readings of Deleuze.
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Why is it important?
Deleuze’s work has much to offer literary criticism, but is often misunderstood and under-used. Current readings of Deleuze often focus on ontology and tend to ignore textuality, interpretation, and reading... starting with ignoring this in their own texts. Nonetheless, the formidable stylistic difficulty of their work must be addressed in order to understand them.
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An attempt to negotiate between the Deleuzian perspectives I learned at Warwick University’s Philosophy Department and the Derridean perspectives I learned at Cardiff University’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory.
Dr Daniel I J Haines
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This page is a summary of: From Deleuze and Guattari's Words to a Deleuzian Theory of Reading, Deleuze Studies, November 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/dls.2015.0203.
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