Featuring the latest research findings and exploring the fascinating interplay of modernist authors and intellectual luminaries, from Beckett and Kafka to Derrida and Adorno, this bold new collection of essays gives students a deeper grasp of key texts in modernist literature.

• Provides a wealth of fresh perspectives on canonical modernist texts, featuring the latest research data
• Adopts an original and creative thematic approach to the subject, with concepts such as race, law, gender, class, time, and ideology forming the structure of the collection
• Explores...

In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism." This concept, Jean-Michel Rabate argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality," a term Rabate understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other." Rabate explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabate subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj i ek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria,...

This volume is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. Jean-Michel Rabate takes Sigmund Freud as his point of departure, studying in detail Freud's integration of literature in the training of psychoanalysts and how literature provided crucial terms for his myriad theories, such as the Oedipus complex. Rabate subsequently surveys other theoreticians such as Wilfred Bion, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Jung, Jacques Lacan, and Slavoj i ek. This Introduction is organized thematically, examining in detail important terms like deferred action, fantasy, hysteria,...