{"product_id":"figural-space-semiotics-and-the-aesthetic-imaginary-9781538147856","title":"Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new directions. Kristeva’s agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book’s argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. However, the book’s conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Spenser to Ishiguro. One of the purposes of the book is to demonstrate that Hegel’s contribution to modern thought is at least partially exhibited in the history of literature, which also corroborates some of the deeper insights of psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: An Opening of Figural Space \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Kristeva and Hegel:\u003cbr\u003eSubjectivity Reconfigured\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Spenser’s Renaissance: \u003cbr\u003eIdeality and Discourse \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Image in Wordsworth: \u003cbr\u003eSpace\/Time and Semiotics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Shelley’s Double Vision: \u003cbr\u003eFigural Counter-Worlds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Proust and Aesthetics:\u003cbr\u003eA Narrative Sensibility \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Space in Blanchot:\u003cbr\u003eOrphic Testimonies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. H.D. and Life Writing:\u003cbr\u003eA Logos of Difference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Revisiting Jean Rhys: \u003cbr\u003e Postcolonial Ethics \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. Ishiguro’s Imaginary:\u003cbr\u003eFigures of History \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Negotiating the Figural \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041188381015,"sku":"9781538147856","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/figural-space-semiotics-and-the-aesthetic-imaginary-9781538147856","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}