Dwelling in Language : Character, Psychoanalysis and Literary Consolations.
Title:
Dwelling in Language : Character, Psychoanalysis and Literary Consolations.
Author:
Champion, Margret Gunnarsdottir.
ISBN:
9783653030617
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (338 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Ideality of Difference -- Part 1: Necessary Fictions -- Chapter 1:Situating Character -- Chapter 2:Narcissus: From Ovid to Freud -- Chapter 3:The Mirror of Alienation:Jacques Lacan's Theory of the Subject -- Chapter 4:The Other's Desire -- Chapter 5:Transference -- Chapter 6:St Mawr: Character and Ethics -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 7:The Psychological Tradition in Old English Poetry -- a. Alterior Space -- b. The Wanderer's Talking Cure -- c. The Embodied Soul in The Seafarer and Resignation -- d. Maternal Form in The Wife's Lament -- e. Deor: Poet as Healer -- Chapter 8:"We Have Never Been Modern": The Libidinal Machine in Graham Swift's Last Orders -- Chapter 9:Myths of Creation in Sir Gawain and the GreenKnight -- Chapter 10:Epilogue: "The Indestructible Principle of Life":Bergson and Lacan in Woolf's Lighthouse -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan's ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, Dwelling in Language broaches new ground by exploring character's ontological identity, its mode of being in literature. Through an alternative poetics, anchored in the Lacanian subject, the author's readings of a variety of texts from medieval poetry to the contemporary novel aim at defamiliarizing the realist premise of previous investigations: character is shown to be a phenomenon of viscerality, narcissistically binding readers to the fiction, but at the same time subverting that bond by evoking the insentient materiality of signification.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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