Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask ŽižekChallenging the widely held assumption that Slavoj iek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of iek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how iek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking