The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce
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Main Author: Weinstein, Philip M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library
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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of
Physical Description:326 pages
ISBN:9781400857395
1400857392

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