Lacan and the destiny of literature : desire, jouissance and the sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery
Azari, Ehsanullah, Lacan, Jacques
In contemporary academic literary studies, Lacan is often considered impenetrably obscure, due to the unavailability of his late works, insufficient articulation of his methodologies and sometimes stereotypical use of Lacanian concepts in literary theory. This study aims to integrate Lacan into contemporary literary study by engaging with a broad range of Lacanian theoretical concepts, often for the first time in English, and using them to analyse a range of key texts from different periods. Azari explores Lacan's theory of desire as well as his final theories of lituraterre, littoral, and t.
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Continuum
Language:
english
Pages:
205
ISBN 10:
144113901X
ISBN 13:
9781441139016
Series:
Continuum literary studies.
File:
PDF, 1.21 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008