An officer of civilization: the poetics of Michel Houellebecq 9783034315814, 9783035107661, 3034315813

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English Pages xii, 184 s. : ill. ; 23 cm Year 2015

An officer of civilization: the poetics of Michel Houellebecq
9783034315814, 9783035107661, 3034315813

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Buchweitz
Nurit;Houellebecq
Michel

Table of contents :
Contents: The Map, the Territory and the Poetics: Introduction - Passive-Activism: A Modular Narration - Familiarity, Kinship, and the Autobiographical Topos - Visions of the Future, Persistence of the Real: A Quest - Art, Literature, and the Market: The Viewer/Reader as Voyeur - The Cult of Happiness: A Gnostic Theology - Pornography and the Post-human.

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