Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

ISBN-13: 9780198184348 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 258 str.

Mary Jacobus

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Offers a new approach to reading with ramifications that go beyond the Romantic texts which are her main (but not exclusive) focus

O autorze

1989: Anderson Professor of English and Women's Studies, Cornell University 1982-89: Professor of English, Cornell University 1980-82: Associate Professor of English, Cornell University 1972-80: Lecturer, English Faculty, Oxford University 1971-80: Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University 1970-71: Lecturer, University of Manchester 1968-70: Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University