John Dolis

American Modernist Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978783201
• Artikelnr.: 74399495

Autorenporträt

John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
About the Author