Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading |
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Author:
| Jacobus, Mary |
Series title: | Clarendon Lectures in English |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-818434-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $314.50AUD $395.00 |
Book Description:
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Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically linked essays, the author explores writing by novelists such as Austen, Rousseau, and Woolf, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and Holocaust memoirs.
Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading is a literary critic's approach to the range of meanings and activities involved in reading, understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. In thematically linked essays, the author explores writing by novelists such as Austen, Rousseau, and Woolf, as well as fictional accounts of slavery and Holocaust memoirs.