American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity
American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity
by John Dolis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1666935662 | 204 Pages | True ePUB | 0.37 MB
by John Dolis
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1666935662 | 204 Pages | True ePUB | 0.37 MB
American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's Process, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Dolis's dynamic readings constitute a spirited "performance" of the narrative, deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism". These psychoanalytic studies simultaneously stage the narrative and re-enact its putative significance, provoke and question its intent, thereby establishing a dialectics of desire—what both affects the body of the narrative and, equally, the critic's subjectivity.