Title The Madder Stain : a Psychoanalytic Reading of Thomas Hardy.

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Leiden : BRILL, 2015.

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Description	1 online resource (190 pages).
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Series	Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies
	Contemporary psychoanalytic studies.
Contents	The Madder Stain: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Thomas Hardy; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Letter Killeth; 1.1 The Littoral in A Pair of Blue Eyes; 1.2 Gaps and Gashes; 1.3 The Missing Blank; 1.4 The Literal; 1.5 Texts and Textiles; 2: The Feminine: Reading Hardy after Lacan's xxth Seminar; 2.1 An Imaginative Woman; 2.2 The Garden Scene in Tess of the d'Urbervilles; 2.3 The Feminine Pursuit, the Artist's Quest; 3: The Logic of Desire; 3.1 Much Ado About Nothing; 3.2 Das Ding; 4: The Object Gaze; 4.1 Anamorphosis; 4.2 The Return of the Native and Anamorphosis.
	4.3 The Object-Gaze in the Return of the Native4.4 "Aftercourses": Revisiting Ancient Theory; 4.5 Far From the Madding Crowd and Anamorphosis; 4.6 The Red Glare and Hardy's Aesthetics; 5: The Object-Voice; 5.1 Gaze and voice; 5.2 Tess's Silent Cry; 5.3 The Vocal Object: Feminine or Masculine?; 5.4 The Muted Voice and Hardy's Poetics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.
Summary	The "madder stain" imprinted on Tess d'Urberville's arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy's fiction. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan's concepts of object-gaze and object-voice-sometimes revisited by Žižek.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Subject	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Psychoanalysis and literature.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Psychoanalysis and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Voice in literature.
	Voice in literature.
	Psychology in literature.
	Psychology in literature.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Ramel, Annie. Madder Stain : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Thomas Hardy. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004293403
ISBN	900429662X
	9789004296626 (electronic book)
	9789004293403

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