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UNINA9910810400703321 |
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Ramel Annie |
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The madder stain : a psychoanalytic reading of Thomas Hardy / / by Annie Ramel |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill/Rodopi, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 pages) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, , 1571-4977 ; ; Volume 21 |
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Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 19th century |
Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 20th century |
Voice in literature |
Psychology in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Letter Killeth -- The Feminine: Reading Hardy after Lacan’s xxth Seminar -- The Logic of Desire -- The Object Gaze -- The Object-Voice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. |
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The “madder stain” imprinted on Tess d’Urberville’s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy’s fiction. Similar to Barthes’s punctum shooting out of the studium , the stain is a place where the Real erupts, a blind spot that eludes interpretation. In the diegesis of the tragic novels, it is a surplus object whose intrusion disrupts reality and spells disaster. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan’s concepts of object-gaze and object-voice—sometimes revisited by Zizek. The stain has a vocal quality: it is silence audible. In a world where sound cannot reverberate for lack of a structural void, voice is by necessity muted, stuck in the throat. Hence the peculiar quality of Tess’s voice, a silent feminine cry that has retained something of the lost vocal object. The sound of silence is what Hardy’s poetic prose allows us to hear. |
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