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Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

By Maud , Ellmann

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
9780582083479, 0582083478
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4315747 bytes)
Series
Longman Critical Readers
Pages
277\286
Time added
2020-11-29 05:12:56

Description

This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical Freudian criticism tended to focus on the thematic content of the literary text, whereas Lacanian criticism focuses on its linguistic structure, redirecting the reader to the words themselves. Concepts and methods are defined by tracing the role played by the drama of Oedipus in the development of psychoanalytic theory and criticism. The essays cover a wide generic scope and are divided into three parts: drama, narrative and poetry. Each is accompanied by explanatory headnotes giving clear definitions of complex terms.

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