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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786604003321

Autore

Reineke Martha J.

Titolo

Intimate domain : desire, trauma, and mimetic theory / / Martha J. Reineke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60917-415-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture

Disciplina

809.912

Soggetti

Mimesis in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface : the family, feminist scholarship, and mimetic theory -- Introduction : family matters -- In search of lost time. Mothers ; The eyes of a parricide ; Of madeleines, mothers, and Mountjouvain ; The journey home is through the world -- Antigone. Siblings ; The house of Labdacus : on kinship and sacrifice ; Trauma and the Theban cycle ; Antigone and the ethics of intimacy -- The old man and the wolves. Fathers ; Not a country for old men : violence and mimesis in Santa Varvara ; To glimpse a world without wolves : from conflict to compassion.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the relational dynamics (maternal, sibling, and paternal) in three narratives, Proust's In search of lost time, Sophocles's Antigone, and Kristeva's The old man and the wolves, to amplify Rene Girard's mimetic hypothesis with the resources of psychoanalysis.