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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.
This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of
"American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"
as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely
insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a
certain alterity, an "other" which constitutes the secondary term
of a binary structure. "American" identity thus finds itself
ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another
nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual
chapters are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving,
Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Mark Twain.
This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of
"American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body"
as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.
This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely
insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a
certain alterity, an "other" which constitutes the secondary term
of a binary structure. "American" identity thus finds itself
ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another
nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual
chapters are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving,
Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
Mark Twain.
The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze is an unusual and insightful work
that employs a combination of critical strategies drawn from art
history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and contemporary aesthetic and
literary theory to explore Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrative
technique and his unique vision of the world. Dolis studies
Hawthorne's antitechnological and essentially Romantic view of the
external world and examines the recurring phenomena of lighting,
motion, aspectivity, fragmentation, and imagination as they relate
to his descriptive techniques. Dolis sets the world of Hawthorne's
work over and against the aesthetic and philosophical development
of the world understood as a "view", from its inception in the
camera obscura and perspective in general, to its 19thcentury
articulation in photography. In light of this general technology of
the image, and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary critical
theories, Dolis begins his study of Hawthorne at the level of
description, where the world of the work first arises in the
reader's consciousness. Dolis shows how the work of Heidegger,
MerleauPonty, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida can provide fresh insights
into the sophisticated style of Hawthorne's perception of and
system for representing reality.
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