The Apocryphal Subject: Masochism, Identification, and Paranoia in Salvador Dali's Autobiographical Writings - Couverture rigide

Vilaseca, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820425818 ISBN 13 : 9780820425818

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1995

Synopsis

A self-appointed «genius, » Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) represents one of the most original, controversial and profoundly subversive phenomena in contemporary Western culture. This study focuses on the artist's autobiographical writings - particularly on The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942) - proposing that without a notion of fantasy and identification, we are unable either to understand Dalí's own subjective movements in the memoirs or what he has come to represent for us. The Apocryphal Subject is the first book to adopt a poststructuralist perspective for the study of Dalí's writings, offering new insights on, for example, the artist's attachments to Federico G. Lorca and his wife Gala. The book draws extensively upon current debates in deconstructive and psychoanalytic criticism (particularly on the themes of homosexuality, masochism, abjection and paranoia), showing how no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Dalí the irreducible contradictions and plurality of desires which constitute our contemporary postmodern identities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Author: David Vilaseca teaches in the Department of Spanish at the University of Southampton. He has an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, and received his Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from the University of London. Dr. Vilaseca has been published in several professional journals both in Spain and abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820425818
• ISBN 13: 9780820425818
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible