Final acts : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir /

Ratekin, Tom.

Final acts : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir / Tom Ratekin. - Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (ix, 165 pages) - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture . - SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Finite and infinite games: terminal illness and the genre of the literary memoir -- The critical process of symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's "Too close to the bone" -- Working through the four discourses: Gillian Rose and the products of Love's work -- Harold Brodkey's traversal of fiction: This wild darkness as La passe -- Modern frame for the postmodern image: reclaiming the gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern nature and Blue -- The genre of the unconscious.

9781441621368 (electronic bk.) 1441621369 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)


Literature, Modern--Psychological aspects.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Terminally ill--Psychology.
Semiotics and literature.
Authorship.
Mémoire épisodique dans la littérature.
Malades en phase terminale--Psychologie.
Sémiotique et littérature.
Art d'écrire.
authorship.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Gay & Lesbian.
Authorship.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Literature, Modern--Psychological aspects.
Semiotics and literature.
Terminally ill--Psychology.


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