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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Jules Law,Peter Brooks +1 more
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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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Gothic Desire in Charlotte Bronte's Villette
TL;DR: A letter of 16 June 1854 reads as follows: "My dear Ellen, Can you come next Wednesday or Thursday? I am afraid circumstances will compel me to agree to an earlier day than I wished, but I fear it must be sooner, the 1st week injuly, possibly the last week inJune... This gives rise to much trouble and many difficulties as you may imagine, and papa's whole anxiety now is to get the business over. Mr. Nicholls with his usual trustworthiness takes all the trouble of providing substitutes on his own shoulders." Despite the language
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Phantom Limb: Reflections on the Bodily Text
TL;DR: Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) describes a condition in which a person desires to self-amputate in order to feel whole, and the phantom limb syndrome (PLS) occurs when an individual feels (typically painful) sensations in a non-existent limb.
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Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
TL;DR: In this paper, the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Opera are discussed. And the novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert and knowing what happens next: opera in Verne.
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Optics, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Gaze: Looking at Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela
TL;DR: Anti-Pamela as mentioned in this paper explores the gendered implications that attended assumptions about vulnerable "subjects" and empowered "objects", and the material (as well as symbolic) limits to the kind of empowerment that intromittist theories about vision and ontology seemed to promise to women in real social spaces.