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The French theorist Lacan has always been called a ''literary'' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan''s theory of literature, reconstructing a doctrine based upon Freudian insights, and revitalised through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Genet, Duras and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan''s influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of key terms like the ''letter'' and the ''symptom'' would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts.>
Sommario
General Editor's Preface
Lacan from Z to L: Or Against Interpretation
Lacan from A to L: Basic Lacanian Issues and Concepts
From Letters to Literature, and Gide
Poe and the Theory of the Letter
Hamlet and the Desire of the Mother
Antigone Between the Beautiful and the Sublime
Sade: Subverting the Law and the Jouissance of the Other
Ravishing Duras, or the Gift of Love
Tragedies and Comedies of Love: Plato, Claudel, Genet
Joyce's Jouissance , or a New Literary Symptom
Conclusion
Annotated Critical Bibliography
Index.
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Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Rabaté has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound, and Joyce. Recent books include
Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014),
The Cambridge Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literature (2014),
The Pathos of Distance (Bloomsbury, 2016), and
Rust (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is one of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the
Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
