School: A Novel
Autor Ray Levyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 2023
At once angry and jubilant, Ray Levy’s School is a curse on a dying system and an incantation for transforming pain into a vessel for capacious, creative selfhood.
A dissertation manuscript possessed by the spirit of Marquis de Sade; a lecture on psychoanalysis delivered as stand-up comedy by a dysphoric graduate student; a review of a found-footage horror movie that’s also a YouTube video of a conference presentation on French theory; an interview with an avant-garde filmmaker that’s really an invocation for conjuring your demon brother; oversharing and withholding, chanting and channeling, School is a slapstick roast of Derrida’s corpse and a mystical vision of a life in which you have not lost.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781573662024
ISBN-10: 157366202X
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 18 B&W Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
ISBN-10: 157366202X
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 18 B&W Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
Notă biografică
Ray Levy is assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is author of Negative Space and A Book So Red.
Recenzii
“ Ray Levy’s School is a blistering and bitterly funny send-up, lampooning deconstructionism and the academy at large. With crackling wit and exhilarating formal play, Levy has given us a welcome antidote to the toxic culture of (some) graduate degree programs in literary studies.”
—Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories
“School is a tour de force of deadpan wit, a delicious détournement in which Levy amusingly mingles (and mangles) various scholarly and cultural archives. Mashing up a range of cult materials (from Bride of Frankenstein to Venus in Furs to The Animal That Therefore I Am), Levy impishly enacts an immanent institutional critique against the cult of intellectual celebrity, the cult of deconstruction, and the cult of academia. It is hard not to feel a shudder of schadenfreude at witnessing Levy’s hilariously clever low blows to high theory. This is cutting-edge academic satire of the highest order.”
—Michael Leong, author of Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry.
"There is such pleasure to be found in School, such virulence and cruelty. It's a novel in rituals, a novel to read and reread until you disappear into its demon-ridden thickets of meaning and emerge as anything, a six-headed elk-owl that sings in the voice of Nancy Sinatra, a cenobitic orca, the end of Hegel."
—Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan
“The novel isn’t simply a critique of deconstruction’s colonial ambitions or the cultish qualities of academia, nor is it only a dramatization of the great clash between transgender studies and post-structuralism. The novel gushes with libidinal and economic want. It’s a novel about wanting—in some sense—and being schooled for it. It’s about how social and institutional discipline schools us into an identification with the instructed and self-satisfied, and out of wanting to change conditions that are not actually impossible to alter but which are local and within our reach. It is a novel written against the imperative to enjoy or take pleasure in deprivation. It is a novel, too, that engages with the immense and private delights of transition, ridicule, and gossip.”
—Jessica Alexander, author of Dear Enemy and That Woman Could Be You
—Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories
“School is a tour de force of deadpan wit, a delicious détournement in which Levy amusingly mingles (and mangles) various scholarly and cultural archives. Mashing up a range of cult materials (from Bride of Frankenstein to Venus in Furs to The Animal That Therefore I Am), Levy impishly enacts an immanent institutional critique against the cult of intellectual celebrity, the cult of deconstruction, and the cult of academia. It is hard not to feel a shudder of schadenfreude at witnessing Levy’s hilariously clever low blows to high theory. This is cutting-edge academic satire of the highest order.”
—Michael Leong, author of Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry.
"There is such pleasure to be found in School, such virulence and cruelty. It's a novel in rituals, a novel to read and reread until you disappear into its demon-ridden thickets of meaning and emerge as anything, a six-headed elk-owl that sings in the voice of Nancy Sinatra, a cenobitic orca, the end of Hegel."
—Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan
“The novel isn’t simply a critique of deconstruction’s colonial ambitions or the cultish qualities of academia, nor is it only a dramatization of the great clash between transgender studies and post-structuralism. The novel gushes with libidinal and economic want. It’s a novel about wanting—in some sense—and being schooled for it. It’s about how social and institutional discipline schools us into an identification with the instructed and self-satisfied, and out of wanting to change conditions that are not actually impossible to alter but which are local and within our reach. It is a novel written against the imperative to enjoy or take pleasure in deprivation. It is a novel, too, that engages with the immense and private delights of transition, ridicule, and gossip.”
—Jessica Alexander, author of Dear Enemy and That Woman Could Be You
Descriere
Ray Levy’s School is a searing, semi-autofictional novel that dismantles the mythologies of academia, celebrity intellectualism, and post-structuralist theory. Through the lens of a trans professor navigating a crumbling liberal arts institution, Levy transforms pain into radical selfhood, blending biting satire with experimental form to expose the absurdities of institutional power and identity performance.