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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459054003321

Autore

Azari Ehsanullah

Titolo

Lacan and the destiny of literature [[electronic resource] ] : desire, jouissance and the sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery / / Ehsan Azari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008

ISBN

1-282-87439-X

9786612874390

1-4411-3901-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

150.19/5092

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Desire, the Lacanian Cogito; 2. Desire and Sexual Difference; 3. Beyond Desire: Love, Mystic Jouissance and The Sinthome; 4. Lacan, Literary Theory and Criticism; 5. Shakespeare's Theatre of Desire; 6. John Donne's Hymns to Love, Desire and Jouissance; 7. Joyce's Wakean Sinthome; 8. The Function of the Specular Image and the Littoral in John Ashbery's Poetry; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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