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From:CLIO (Vol. 34, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEven for those not predisposed to endorse psychoanalytic approaches to literary texts, an inherent compatibility between psychoanalysis and Renaissance literature is hard to deny, as evidenced by Regina Schwartz and...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 2008 US election, internet images circulated of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin carrying big guns. In a commentary titled "Sarah Palin: Operation 'Castration,'" French Lacanian theorist Jacques-Alain...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedZizek's interpretation of Lacan's work as ideology critique enhances my reading of The Age of Innocence. While the objet petit a becomes the forbidden, motivating impetus, the failure of language maintains the...
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From:Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 33) Peer-ReviewedPSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY assumes that in "recovering" the past we recast it so as to collapse the temporal distinctions between past, present, and future. The concept of chronology is itself a construction that falters...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 148. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:Thomas Bailey AldrichThe Stillwater Tragedy (novel) 1880Honoré de BalzacIllusions perdues (novel) 1843 [Lost Illusions, 1925]Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's Secret (novel) 1862A Strange World...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Library, as it exists today, is very much a product of modernism. The Library's reason for being, as a cultural institution, usually involves the idea that humanity is enrolled in a nonracist, nonsexist, sort of...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 91, Issue 1)According to the International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Freud isolated a form of repetition that not only becomes renewal but also metamorphosis or creation. Perched in the black-and-white rafters of LIFE like a...
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From:D.H. Lawrence Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1. Two Essays on Hamlet D. H. Lawrence and Jacques Lacan are regarded by many readers as widely different, even incompatible thinkers. Lawrence spent his life writing literary works to liberate us from repressed desire...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 121, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen I asked Auden about this apparent conflict he replied that others could take it or leave it, but that was how he felt on the subject--a masterful poet's typically whimsical, and understandable, justification....
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 121, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedToday, after four or five generations of authors have absorbed Freudian theory, all biography is in a sense Freudian, even if the biographer affects to disdain his theories. This must be one reason biography (including...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 44, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedEarly in Toni Morrison's Sula (1973), a black World War I veteran finds himself m a hospital. The year is 1919, the place is Ohio, and Shadrack has been there more than a year. During his first engagement with the...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn May 1895, William James delivered a talk to the Young Men's Christian Association of Harvard University entitled Is Life Worth Living? The lecture was subsequently published, first in the International Journal of...
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From:Mythlore (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNorman Holland, in his essay entitled "The Mind and the Book: A Long Look at Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism," discusses psychoanalytic criticism's past and where he thinks its future should lie. After all, as he...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedA funny woman, he thought.--Toni Morrison, Sula (1973) It is possible to use Toni Morrison's Sula make to psychoanalysis meaningful to black literary studies. Such a reading emerges not by reducing the text to a...
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From:Variaciones Borges (Vol. 42) Peer-ReviewedYes, but there is a hidden psychology behind the story because, if not, the characters would be mere puppets. Jorge Luis Borges, The Paris Review, 1967 Jorge Luis Borges never had much to say about Sigmund Freud....
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 74, Issue 1)M arguerite Young's oceanic novel and incomparable magnum opus, Miss Macintosh, My Darling, remains, more than fifty years after its publication, in 1965 (and after its protean, eighteen-year, two-volume incubation),...
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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2)"The poets and philosophers before me," said Freud, "discovered the unconscious. ... What I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious could be studied." He and his analytical brethren drew their...
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From:Antipodes (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is well known that Australian poet Kevin Hart is interested in the relationship of theology and deconstruction, and that he is sympathetic to theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida,...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 67. )Introduction Timon of Athens, one of Shakespeare's least popular plays, eludes critical consensus on several fronts. For centuries, scholars have debated on such issues as the date of composition, Shakespeare's...
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 92. )Introduction Generally regarded as one of the greatest dramatic tragedies ever written, Hamlet (ca. 1600-01) has prompted an enduring critical interest equal to or surpassing that of any other work in the English...