Dwelling in Language: Character, Psychoanalysis and Literary Consolations

by Margrét Gunnarsdottir Champion

Overview

Dwelling in Language proposes a theory of literary character, based on Jacques Lacan's ideas about self, language and ethics. The book departs from previous studies in postulating an ontological identity for character. A variety of transhistorical readings aim at replacing the personhood of character with impersonal ethical zones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631644379
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/25/2013
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), where she teaches British literature and literary theory. Her current research focuses on English literature in the 1920s, the new French philosophy, psychoanalysis and gender, transculturalism, and the concept of medievalism.

Table of Contents

Contents: The Ideality of Difference – Narcissus – The Mirror of Alienation – The Other’s Desire – Transference – Character and Ethics – The Psychological Tradition in Old English Poetry – The Libidinal Machine in Graham Swift’s Last Orders – Myths of Creation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Lacan and Bergson in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Preface

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