Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically linked essays, the author explores writing by novelists such as Austen, Rousseau, and Woolf, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and Holocaust memoirs.

A propos de l'auteur

1989: Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University

1982-89: Professor of English, Cornell University

1980-82: Associate Professor of English, Cornell University

1972-80: Lecturer, English Faculty, Oxford University

1971-80: Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

1970-71: Lecturer, University of Manchester

1968-70: Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University

Résumé

Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically linked essays, the author explores writing by novelists such as Austen, Rousseau, and Woolf, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and Holocaust memoirs.

Texte suppl.

Offers a new approach to reading with ramifications that go beyond the Romantic texts which are her main (but not exclusive) focus

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mary Jacobus, Mary (Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies Jacobus, Jacobus Mary
• Edition: Oxford Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 26.08.1999
• EAN: 9780198184348
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818434-8
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 224 mm x 19 mm
• Poids: 414 g
• Illustrations: four-colour frontispiece
• Thèmes: Clarendon Lectures in English; Clarendon Lectures in English, 1997; Clarendon Lectures in English
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)