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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778332103321

Autore

Ratekin Tom

Titolo

Final acts [[electronic resource] ] : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir / / Tom Ratekin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2740-9

1-4416-2136-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - Psychological aspects

Autobiographical memory in literature

Terminally ill - Psychology

Semiotics and literature

Authorship

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Finite and infinite games: terminal illness and the genre of the literary memoir -- The critical process of symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's "Too close to the bone" -- Working through the four discourses: Gillian Rose and the products of Love's work -- Harold Brodkey's traversal of fiction: This wild darkness as La passe -- Modern frame for the postmodern image: reclaiming the gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern nature and Blue -- The genre of the unconscious.