Weinstein The Semantics of Desire

Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5739-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.

Originally published in 1984.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstein, Philip M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
A Note on Bibliographical Procedures and Primary Texts, pg. xi
Contents, pg. xiii
Introduction, pg. 1
Introduction, pg. 19
Chapter One. The Nocturnal Dickens, pg. 21
Chapter Two. George Eliot and the Idolatries of the Superego, pg. 73
Introduction, pg. 107
Chapter Three. Hardy: "Full-Hearted Evensong", pg. 108
Chapter Four. Conrad: Against Nature, pg. 146
Introduction, pg. 187
Chapter Five. "Become Who You Are": The Optative World of D. H. Lawrence, pg. 189
Chapter Six. New Heaven, New Earth: Joyce and the Art of Reprojection, pg. 252
Afterword, pg. 288
List of Works Cited, pg. 293
Index, pg. 305