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The subject of modernism : narrative alterations in the fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce

Like other poststructuralist theories, Lacanian theory has long been accused of being ahistorical. In The Subject of Modernism, Tony E. Jackson combines a uniquely graspable explanation of the Lacanian theory of the self with a series of detailed psychoanalytic interpretations of actual texts to offer a new kind of literary history
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1994
Criticism, interpretation, etc
209 pages ; 24 cm
9780472105526, 0472105523
30625247
1. From Kinds of History to Kinds of Reading to Kinds of Being
2. Subjectivity a Lacan
3. The Generic Self-Representation of Realism
4. Readers and Readings in Daniel Deronda
5. Sailors, Readers, and Muddied Mirrors in Lord Jim
6. Naturalism and Unconsciousness in Heart of Darkness
7. Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Subject of Mrs. Dalloway
8. The Waves and the Narrative of the Crisis in Narrative
9. In Conclusion: The Lack of Limit
Appendix: Joyce's Imaginary Irish Couple