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Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Chris Wiesenthal
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Description for Figuring Madness in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary study which combines medical history, semiotic theory, psychoanalysis and literary criticism in an examination of the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness in canonical and non-canonical texts from Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 441.
How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts ... Read more
How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333634660
SKU
V9780333634660
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About Chris Wiesenthal
CHRIS WIESENTHAL
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