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American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity
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John Dolis (Author)
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American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's Process, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Dolis's dynamic readings constitute a spirited "performance" of the narrative, deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism". These psychoanalytic studies simultaneously stage the narrative and re-enact its putative significance, provoke and question its intent, thereby establishing a dialectics of desire-what both affects the body of the narrative and, equally, the critic's subjectivity.
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John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.
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- Contributor: John Dolis
- Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- ISBN13: 9781666935660
- Number of Pages: 204
- Packaged Dimensions: 157x237x21mm
- Packaged Weight: 494
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Release Date: 2023-08-15
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.
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