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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1985-01-23. It has received 815 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative & Reading (process).read more
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Life Beyond Death: Reading for the Demonic in the Texts of Modiano and Japrisot
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a psychoanalytic reading of these protagonists and of the demonic in its chronic manifestation, drawing on A½iA¾ek's reading of Lacan and placing this in contradistinction to the work of Freud.
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Psychoanalysis and Aestheticism
TL;DR: Freud is not simply the author of The Interpretation of Dreams or of Wit and its relation to the Unconscious and Marx is not just the Communist Manifesto or Capital: they both established the endless possibility of discourse as mentioned in this paper.
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The Family Novel (and Its Curious Disappearance)
TL;DR: The authors recovered the lost history of the family novel, tracing two separate strands: usage of the term and form/content of the novels, and illustrated the way later ideology and theoretical emphases that shape the language of scholarship ultimately reshape our understanding of the past.
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Lorrie Moore Collection“Escape from the Invasion of the Love-Killers”: Lorrie Moore's Metafictional Feminism
TL;DR: Moore's work offers up a comic exploration of the pain of womanhood and feminism, and a powerful metafictional critique of prevailing narratives as discussed by the authors, including Anagrams, a collection of linked short stories that has also been marketed as a novel.