Desire and Its Discontents / / Eugene Goodheart.
A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's Death in Venice, Ford's The Good Soldier, and Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Also examines D.H. Lawrence and the tyranny of desire, the Freudian narrative and the case of Ja...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1991] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Desire
- 1. Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Allegory of Enlightenment
- 2. The Art of Ambivalence: Mann's Death in Venice
- 3. D. H. Lawrence and the Tyranny of Desire
- 4. What Dowell Knew: A Reading of Ford's The Good Soldier
- 5. Family, Incest, and Transcendence in Brontë's Wuthering Heights
- 6. Desire and Its Discontents
- 7. Freudian Narrative and the Case of Jacques Lacan
- 8. "Postmodern" Meditations on the Self: The Work of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
- 9. Desire and the Self
- Notes
- Index