Love and reading : an essay in applied psychoanalysis
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Love and reading : an essay in applied psychoanalysis
（American university studies, Series 3 . Comparative literature ; v. 25）
P. Lang, c1989
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Bibliography: p. [173]-186
Includes index
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"Love and Reading" discusses 18th and 19th Century English fiction, the aesthetics of Burke and Kant, and contemporary literary theory. It stresses that language should be referential and argues for a way of reading that would not provide narcissistic gratification: a way of reading that would enable us instead to see through -the huge and terrible deception, - as Tolstoy put it, that hides -both life and death.-"
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