Deleuze, Femininity and the Specter of Poststructural Politics: Variations on the Materiality of Rhetoric
Description:
In this thesis I rethink the materiality of rhetoric in a minor key. I review poststructural and psychoanalytic endeavors to position rhetoric from within the postmodern and poststructural critique of the subject. I move beyond the logic of influence (dependent on a flawed conception of object) and hermeneutics (the correspondingly flawed methodology). In this endeavor, I primarily enlist Deleuze and Guattari (1987) for a conceptual apparatus that enlivens the "thinness" of rhetoric's (neo)A…
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Date:
December 2004
Creator:
May, Matthew S.
Partner:
UNT Libraries