{"product_id":"dwelling-in-language-character-psychoanalysis-and-literary-consolations-9783631644379","title":"Dwelling in Language: Character, Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan’s ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, \u003ci\u003eDwelling in Language \u003c\/i\u003ebroaches new ground by exploring character’s ontological identity, its mode of being in literature. Through an alternative poetics, anchored in the Lacanian subject, the author’s readings of a variety of texts from medieval poetry to the contemporary novel aim at defamiliarizing the realist premise of previous investigations: character is shown to be a phenomenon of viscerality, narcissistically binding readers to the fiction, but at the same time subverting that bond by evoking the insentient materiality of signification.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The Ideality of Difference – Narcissus – The Mirror of Alienation – The Other’s Desire – Transference – Character and Ethics – The Psychological Tradition in Old English Poetry – The Libidinal Machine in Graham Swift’s \u003ci\u003eLast Orders\u003c\/i\u003e – Myths of Creation in \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e – Lacan and Bergson in Woolf’s \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044258283863,"sku":"9783631644379","price":56.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631644379.jpg?v=1750961048","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dwelling-in-language-character-psychoanalysis-and-literary-consolations-9783631644379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}