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Narcissism and the Literary Libido - Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Hardcover, New)
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Narcissism and the Literary Libido - Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity (Hardcover, New)
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What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the
psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to
explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change.
Synthesizing the ideas of theorists as diverse as Aristotle and
Althusser, Kohut and Derrida, Alcorn explores the relationships
between language and subjectivity. The works of Joseph Conrad,
James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Arthur Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Ben
Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful
analysis of the rhetorical resources of literary language. Using
Freudian, post-Freudian, and Lacanian theory, Alcorn Investigates
the power by means of which literary texts are able to fashion new
and distinctly rhetorical experiences for readers. He shows how the
production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic
self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts
is directed by libidinal investment. Psychoanalysts, psychologists,
and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and
far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and
thinkers.
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