Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity, and Strategy in LA Regenta - Couverture souple

Sinclair, Alison

 
9780807892596: Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity, and Strategy in LA Regenta
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807892599 ISBN 13 : 9780807892596
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Synopsis

Dislocations of Desire provides the first sustained psychoanalytic reading of La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas. In this unique study, Alison Sinclair focuses on the representation and articulation of desire in the novel. She argues that instead of being seduced by the fiction, what is at stake is sexual desire leading to adultery -- the characteristic fiction of the adultery novel. According to the critic, the reader must learn to look below the surface in order to see the ontological insecurities that this fiction veils and attempts to contain. In a reading that draws both on a broad spectrum of modern psychoanalytic theory and on an understanding of social, sexual, and medical norms of the period in which the novel was written, Sinclair proposes that the adultery story be understood as a coded résumé of fantasied, dislocated, repudiated, and thwarted desire.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alison Sinclair is lecturer in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807892599
ISBN 13 
9780807892596
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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