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Sylvia Plath and the theatre of mourning
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ISBN: 0198183739 Year: 1999 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

Subject matters : subject and the self in French literature from Descartes to the present
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ISBN: 9042006307 9004455981 Year: 2000 Volume: 184

Scheming women : poetry, privilege, and the politics of subjectivity
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ISBN: 079142622X Year: 1995 Volume: *1 Publisher: Albany State University of New York

Ichkulte : Formen gebündelter Subjektivität im französischen Fin de siècle-Roman
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ISBN: 3825311953 Year: 2001 Volume: 106


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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives
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ISBN: 9781438448350 9781438448343 Year: 2013 Publisher: Albany, NY SUNY Press

Narcissism and the Literary Libido : Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity
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ISBN: 0814707513 0814706142 0814706657 9780814707517 9780814706657 9780814706145 Year: 1994 Volume: 4 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful exploration of the relationship between language and subject. Bringing together ideas from Freudian, post- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist schools, Alcorn investigates the power of the text that underlies the reader response approach to literature in a strikingly new way. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment.Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers.

Saying I no more : subjectivity and consciousness in the prose of Samuel Beckett
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ISBN: 0810116820 0810116839 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: Evanston, Ill. Northwestern University Press

Get the guests : psychoanalysis, modern American drama and the audience
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ISBN: 0299141543 0299141500 Year: 1994 Volume: *13 Publisher: Wisconsin The University of Wisconsin Press

The strange short fiction of Joseph Conrad : writing, culture, and subjectivity
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ISBN: 0198184999 0191674427 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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This study engages with the troubled question of authorial subjectivity and ethics in Modernism in general and in Conrad's short fiction in particular, and offers an original theoretical perspective, inspired by the work of Derrida and the early philosophical writings of M. M. Bakhtin. Part One of the book focuses on the relational dynamics in 'Under Western Eyes' and 'The Secret Sharer', and develops a 'heterobiographical' reading matrix, which serves as a psycho-textual and philosophical approach to modes of authorial presence in the text. Part Two offers close readings of ten short stories spanning the whole of Conrad's career and clustered into five chapters--'Writing and Fratricide', 'The Pathos of Authenticity', 'The Poetics of Cultural Despair', 'The Romantic paradox', and 'Addressing the Woman'. This part of the book engages with the interpretative problems posed by these stories through a cultural-historical perspective, linking Conrad's essentially Romantic sensibility and his unique position on the threshold of Modernism with some of the issues that have emerged from the 'Postmodern turn': the relationship between metaphysics and subjectivity, the conception of inter-subjectivity as prior to and constitutive of subjectivity; the permeability of textual and psychological boundary-lines; and the desire for subjective aesthetization. These issues, which can all be traced back to the cultural crisis of the turn of the century, are still with us at the close of the millennium.

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