04088nam 22008175 450 99658806790331620200623100627.00-8147-0751-310.18574/9780814707517(CKB)2670000000167715(EBL)865315(OCoLC)782877896(SSID)ssj0000638924(PQKBManifestationID)11437985(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000638924(PQKBWorkID)10598916(PQKB)11414743(MiAaPQ)EBC865315(OCoLC)794701109(MdBmJHUP)muse10946(DE-B1597)547450(DE-B1597)9780814707517(EXLCZ)99267000000016771520200623h19941994 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarcissism and the Literary Libido Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity /Marshall W. Alcorn JrNew York, NY : New York University Press, [1994]©19941 online resource (266 p.)Literature and psychoanalysis ;4Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-0665-7 0-8147-0614-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Political Ties and Libidinal Ruptures: Narcissism as the Origin and End of Textual Production -- 2. Self-Structure as a Rhetorical Device: Modern Ethos and the Divisiveness of the Self -- 3. Projection and the Resistance of the Signifier: A Reader-Response Theory of Textual Presence -- 4. Character, Plot, and Imagery: Mechanisms That Shift Narcissistic Investments -- 5. The Narcissism of Creation and Interpretation: Agon at the Heart of Darkness -- 6. Language and the Substance of the Self: A Lacanian Perspective -- 7. Conclusion: What Do We Do with Rhetorical Criticism? -- Bibliography -- Index What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful exploration of the relationship between language and subject. Bringing together ideas from Freudian, post- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist schools, Alcorn investigates the power of the text that underlies the reader response approach to literature in a strikingly new way. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment.Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers.Literature and psychoanalysis ;4.Narration (Rhetoric)Subjectivity in literatureNarcissism in literaturePsychoanalysis and literatureElectronic books. This.book.change.compels.concepts.effect.explain.investment.libidinal.narcissism.psychoanalytic.rhetoric.uses.Narration (Rhetoric)Subjectivity in literature.Narcissism in literature.Psychoanalysis and literature.801/.92Jr Marshall W. Alcorn, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1234251DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996588067903316Narcissism and the Literary Libido2866991UNISA