American Modernist Fiction
Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity
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2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3566-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3566-0 (ISBN)
This book addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism," Dolis (psycho)analyzes the narrative unconscious of each text to excavate a discourse "other" than the story being "told."
American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's Process, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Dolis's dynamic readings constitute a spirited "performance" of the narrative, deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism". These psychoanalytic studies simultaneously stage the narrative and re-enact its putative significance, provoke and question its intent, thereby establishing a dialectics of desire—what both affects the body of the narrative and, equally, the critic's subjectivity.
American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's Process, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Dolis's dynamic readings constitute a spirited "performance" of the narrative, deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism". These psychoanalytic studies simultaneously stage the narrative and re-enact its putative significance, provoke and question its intent, thereby establishing a dialectics of desire—what both affects the body of the narrative and, equally, the critic's subjectivity.
John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.
Introduction: Apéritif: Performance Criticism, Revisited
Chapter 1: Amuse-bouche: Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
Chapter 2: Entrée: Kay Boyle, Process
Chapter 3: Plat principal: Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Chapter 4: Dessert: Thornton Wilder, The Cabala
Chapter 5: Digestif: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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Erscheinungsdatum | 26.07.2023 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 157 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 494 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-6669-3566-2 / 1666935662 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-3566-0 / 9781666935660 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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