The King and the Adulteress - A Psychoanalytic and Literary Reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King Lear

"I was truly fascinated by this book, which introduces a totally unexpected, though perfectly plausible and, in a sense, obvious, reading of "Madame Bovary." From now on, it will be impossible to ignore this work whenever a study of Flaubert's novel is undertaken."--Jean-Pierre Richard

List of contents

Foreword / Frank Kermode vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Charbovari: An Essay on Madame Bovary 1

Not Merely an Imbecile 1

But He Is Fast Asleep! 13

The Art of Irritating 18

How to Avoid Gangrene 26

Blindness 39

A Matter of Fate 46

A Wholly Fictitious Story 54

Les Imbéciles! 59

Insatiability 64

Justin and Justine 67

Oedipus and Orestes 72

The Barbarous Scythian: An Essay on King Lear 81

Neither Letters nor Words 81

Commonplaces 82

Cordelia the Favorite 84

The Fool and Melancholy 93

The Fool's Techniques 98

The Coxcomb 101

The Barbarous Scythian 106

The Egg and the Two Crowns 108

Noble Kent 112

Dissonance 122

The Two Monsters of Ingratitute 124

Text or Performance? 129

The Bastard 133

Notes 137

Index 159

About the author

Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychotherapy at the Medical School of the University of Genova. He is the author of numerous works including On the Shoulders of Freud.

Summary

Presents a psychoanalytic study of "Madame Bovary" and "King Lear" that produces an understanding of these works.

Product details

• Authors: Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca
• Assisted by: Colin Rice (Editor), Aina Pavolini Taylor (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.1998
• EAN: 9780822320753
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2075-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Französisch, Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker