Format:
Online-Ressource (266 p.)
ISBN:
9780814706145
Series Statement:
Literature & Psychoanalysis S
Content:
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 respon
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; ONE Political Ties and Libidinal Ruptures: Narcissism as the Origin and End of Textual Production; TWO Self-Structure as a Rhetorical Device: Modern Ethos and the Divisiveness of the Self; THREE Projection and the Resistance of the Signifier: A Reader-Response Theory of Textual Presence; FOUR Character, Plot, and Imagery: Mechanisms That Shift Narcissistic Investments; FIVE The Narcissism of Creation and Interpretation: Agon at the Heart of Darkness; SIX Language and the Substance of the Self: A Lacanian Perspective
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SEVEN Conclusion: What Do We Do with Rhetorical Criticism?Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814707517
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814706657
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Narcissism and the Literary Libido : Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity
Language:
English
Keywords:
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