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| Named Person: | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Albert Camus |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Jacobus |
| ISBN: | 0198184344 9780198184348 |
| OCLC Number: | 43752099 |
| Description: | xii, 241 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The room in the book : psychoanalysis and the scene of reading -- A whole world in your head : rereading the landscape of absence -- White skin, black masks : reading with different eyes -- Border crossings : traumatic reading and Holocaust memory -- Guilt that wants a name : Mary Shelley's unreadability -- Traces of an accusing spirit : Mary Hays and the vehicular state. |
| Series Title: | Clarendon lectures in English literature, 1997. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Jacobus. |
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It is utopian deconstruction that Jacobus begins to unpack in these essays. In the process she opens up a rich field of possibilities, including the extension of her approach from reading to writing (often implicit in her analyses), the question of what it is in (much) Romantic writing that is uniquely consonant with such an approach, and (as my last comments suggest) the thinking of this transitional reading/writing between psychoanaysis and other theoretical discourses The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.XXXII, No.4 Offers a new approach to reading with ramifications that go beyond the Romantic texts which are her main (but not exclusive) focus The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.XXXII, No.4 Read more...
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Related Subjects:(14)
- Literature -- History and criticism.
- Literature -- Psychology.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Critique et interprétation.
- Camus, Albert, -- 1913-1960.
- Psychanalyse et littérature.
- Letterkunde.
- Psychoanalyse.
- Lezen.
- Lesen -- (Leser)
- Lesen -- Literaturpsychologie.
- Psychoanalyse -- Lesen.
- Lesen -- Psychoanalyse.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Reading, Psychology of.
