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Ring Lardner and the Other (Hardcover)
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Ring Lardner and the Other (Hardcover)
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Newspaper columnist, sports writer, and author of short stories,
Ring Lardner was one of the most popular personalities of the early
twentieth century. Douglas Robinson combines careful psychological
and cultural analysis to present an important reappraisal of this
critically neglected American author. Robinson's study offers an
exploration of Lardner's life and work. He presents a long,
in-depth reading of a single short story, "Who Dealt?", as well as
a briefer look at several others. He explores the contradictions of
Lardner's patriarchal masculinity - how such a dour, sexist
alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a
rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices
of women and the lower middle class - and the social functions
served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. Ring
Lardner and the Other is so titled because it is also an
investigation of the "Other", in an expanded Lacanian sense: the
speaking of various unconscious voices (mother and father and
child, culture and anarchy, majority and minority) through literary
characters and their authors and readers. Looking at this element
in Lardner's work, Robinson exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of
the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical
formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari, and others. Steeped
in masculine psychology and the emancipatory agenda of the
profeminist men's movement, the book also engages in dialogue with
feminist voices and features in the Appendix an essay by Ellen
Gardiner. The first postmodern reading of Ring Lardner, this study
emphasizes the complexity and diversity of the voices upon which
Lardner drew in his writing. Thus, inaddition to the expected
literary-critical readership, it will interest Americanists
concerned with modernism, with vernacular humor, and with the
Chicago school, as well as literary theorists interested in
integrating psychoanalytic with cultural criticism.
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