| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Murderous lovers -- pt. 1. Structures of desire: Racine, psychoanalysis and Oedipus -- Realism and the fear of desire -- Emma Bovary and the sense of sex -- Paranoid hero in Stendhal -- Jamesian lie -- Lawrentian stillness -- pt. 2. Deconstructed self: Desire and metamorphosis -- Rimbaud's simplicity -- Artaud, defecation and birth -- Theaters of desire (Joe Chaikin, Robert Wilson and others) -- Persons in pieces. |
| Subject |
Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Characters and characteristics in literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Modern. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
| ISBN |
0316092134 |
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9780316092135 |
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