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Lacan and fantasy literature : portents of modernity in late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction /
Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill-Rodopi,
2017.
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| Colección: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ;
23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lacan and Fantasy Literature: Portents of Modernity in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Modernization of Britain 1870-1914; 2 Lacan and the Question of Evidence; 3 Lacan's Reconsideration of Totem and Taboo; 1 Totem and Taboo and Oedipus Rex; 2 The Name-of-the-Father; 3 The Thing (Das Ding) and Object a; 4 Anxiety and Object a; 5 Père ou Pire: Father or Worse; 4 Science and the Thing: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World; 1 The Doubling of the Primal Father; 2 The Abdication of the Father; 3 The Father-Out-Law.
- 4 The Return of the Courtly Love Tradition5 Courtly Love as Art and the (Scientific) Need to See for Oneself; 6 The 'Larger than Life' Scientist; 7 Lacan and Sublimation; 8 Science and Civilization; 9 The Ending of the Novel: The Use of Beauty; 5 The Missing Name-of-the-Father: She; 1 She and Totem and Taboo; 2 The Fantasy Space; 3 The Asexual Primal Father; 4 A Land Where the Names of Fathers are Missing; 5 The Absence of the (Normal) Sexual Relationship; 6 The Father's Bequest to His Son; 7 Myth, Fantasy and Realism; 6 The Recuperation of the Thing: 'The Horror of the Heights'
- 1 The Symbolic, the Real and the Thing2 The Danger of the Thing; 3 The Social versus a Deadly Solipsistic Enjoyment; 4 The Primal Father Who Enjoys; 5 The Return to the Greek Myths; 7 The Name-of-Science: The Invisible Man; 1 The Invisible Man as Primal Father; 2 Invisibility and the Anonymity of the City; 3 Beyond the Law; 4 The Impossibility of a 'Special, Solitary Enjoyment'; 5 The Cancellation of the Name-of-the-Father; 6 The Impossible Existence; 7 'In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King'; 8 The Re-inscription of the Name-of-the-Father: Dracula.
- 1 Lacanian Readings of Dracula2 Dracula as Totem and Taboo; 3 The Fantasy Area: Transylvania and the Loss of the Symbolic; 4 Dracula's Castle and Freud's Reception Hall; 5 In the Castle: Dracula as Jonathan Harker's Double; 6 Van Helsing and the Return of the Master; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.