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Tennyson's Fixations - Psychoanalysis and the Topics of Early Poetry (Hardcover)
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Tennyson's Fixations - Psychoanalysis and the Topics of Early Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Victorian Literature & Culture
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Matthew Rowlinson proposes a revitalized and properly analytic
formalism as the appropriate model for a reading of Tennyson. In a
series of attentive close readings, he probes the nature of place
and the structuring of desire in Tennyson's work. Focusing on the
poet's most important early writings - fragments and poems produced
between 1824 and 1833 - Rowlinson conflates deconstructive theory
with psychoanalytic insights. The author begins by observing that
the subjectivities articulated in these poems, from the strangely
passive poet-seer of the ""Armageddon"" fragments to the embowered
singers of ""Mariana,"" ""The Lady of Shalott,"" and ""The
Hesperides"" to the absconding monarch of ""Ulysses,"" are all
constituted in relation to ruined, abandoned, or inaccessible
places. The placing of the subject allegorizes its relation to the
signifier as well as to the discursive structures within which the
signifier comes into being. On this premise, Rowlinson takes up
Lacan's claim that it is through the signifier that it is through
the signifier that all human desire is mediated. In the placement
of the subjects he reads a distinctively Tennysonian articulation
of desire. Following Paul de Man, Rowlinson demonstrates that
allegory comes into being only with a structure of repetition. He
has developed a formalist poetics that provides a psychoanalytic
account of the most basic figurative and formal devices - allegory,
metaphor, rhyme, and metre - and he offers an explication and
critique of major concepts in Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalytic
theory, including the gaze, the castration complex, the death
drive, and the compulsion to repeat. By returning to the
deconstruction, the author has resumed the challenges English
studies took up in the 1970s and left incomplete in its rush to
historicism. His readings offer fresh insights at the level of
theory.
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