![]() ![]() ![]() The second key concept I seek to utilize is Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the " literary machine. The first is Ortega y Gasset's notion of " dehumanization ", expounded in a little-cited 1925 essay, entitled " The Dehumanization of Art " (La deshumanizaciĆ³n del arte). What meaning, if any, does this construct convey? More generally, what is the purpose of this bizarre, gloomy novel? And what implications does it have for literary theory in general? So as to diversify scholarly reception of Banks' extraordinary work, I seek to utilize two concepts of aesthetic theory that may be of help in this regard. ![]() Specifically, I attempt to grasp the aesthetic function of the Wasp Factory, a bizarre contraption utilized by the narrator to ritually murder wasps. In this article I seek to explore the dark, twisted world of Iain Banks' masterpiece of speculative weird fiction, The Wasp Factory. ![]()
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