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Lacan and fantasy literature : portents of modernity in late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction

Summary: Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker's Dracula , revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about - primarily sexual - aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses.

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ISBN: 9789004336575
ISBN: 9789004336582
ISBN: 9004336583
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Computer data.
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.

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General Note:	CatMonthString:july.20 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	4 The Return of the Courtly Love Tradition5 Courtly Love as Art and the (Scientific) Need to See for Oneself; 6 The 'Larger than Life' Scientist; 7 Lacan and Sublimation; 8 Science and Civilization; 9 The Ending of the Novel: The Use of Beauty; 5 The Missing Name-of-the-Father: She; 1 She and Totem and Taboo; 2 The Fantasy Space; 3 The Asexual Primal Father; 4 A Land Where the Names of Fathers are Missing; 5 The Absence of the (Normal) Sexual Relationship; 6 The Father's Bequest to His Son; 7 Myth, Fantasy and Realism; 6 The Recuperation of the Thing: 'The Horror of the Heights'
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.