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Novel Poetry: Transgressing the Law of Genre

Novel Poetry: Transgressing the Law of Genre 490 / VICTORIAN POETRY 13 E. Warwick Slinn, "Poetry and Culture: Performativity and Critique," NLH 30 (1999): 68. 14 Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Routledge, 1993). 15 Hence Butler's interest in exploring gestures of exclusion and abjection which arise through identity production. While Butler wishes to complicate the Foucauldian model with an understanding of identity formation and psychic investment, she is wary of the normativising tendencies of Lacanian psychoanalysis, unlike Ziñek whose theory is rooted in a Lacanian ontology of the Real (The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection [Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1997]). 16 Butler elaborates Ziñek's theory in more detail as follows: "A set of fears and anxieties emerges, a name is retroactively and arbitrarily attached to those fears and anxieties: suddenly, that bundle of fears and anxieties becomes a single thing, and that thing comes to function as a cause or ground of whatever is disturbing. What first appeared as a disorganized field of social anxiety is transformed by a certain performative operation into an ordered universe with an identifiable cause" (Judith Butler, et al., Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left [New York: Verso, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Victorian Poetry West Virginia University Press

Novel Poetry: Transgressing the Law of Genre

Victorian Poetry , Volume 41 (4) – Feb 25, 2004

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490 / VICTORIAN POETRY 13 E. Warwick Slinn, "Poetry and Culture: Performativity and Critique," NLH 30 (1999): 68. 14 Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Routledge, 1993). 15 Hence Butler's interest in exploring gestures of exclusion and abjection which arise through identity production. While Butler wishes to complicate the Foucauldian model with an understanding of identity formation and psychic investment, she is wary of the normativising tendencies of Lacanian psychoanalysis, unlike Ziñek whose theory is rooted in a Lacanian ontology of the Real (The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection [Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1997]). 16 Butler elaborates Ziñek's theory in more detail as follows: "A set of fears and anxieties emerges, a name is retroactively and arbitrarily attached to those fears and anxieties: suddenly, that bundle of fears and anxieties becomes a single thing, and that thing comes to function as a cause or ground of whatever is disturbing. What first appeared as a disorganized field of social anxiety is transformed by a certain performative operation into an ordered universe with an identifiable cause" (Judith Butler, et al., Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left [New York: Verso,

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