Family and relationships in Ian McEwan's fiction : between fantasy and desire
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書誌事項
Family and relationships in Ian McEwan's fiction : between fantasy and desire
Lexington Books, c2018
- : cloth
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The book provides a lucid analysis of all Ian McEwan fiction published to date, from his 1975 debut short stories up to the 2016 novel Nutshell, spanning forty years of his literary career. Apart from a general discussion of McEwan's works, the study offers a uniform focal point: it concentrates on one of the key issues taken up by the writer - the aspect of relationships between partners and between family members. As the book demonstrates, the novelist employs interpersonal relations to establish a pertinent context in which he can dramatically portray the process of identity formation in his characters. Throughout his fiction, McEwan consistently uses references to psychoanalysis, either veiled or direct. The proposed book investigates the novelist's oeuvre through the lens of the psychoanalytic theory developed by Jacques Lacan. The approach used makes the book useful both for readers well familiar with this apparatus, and for those who need introduction to Lacanian psychoanalysis and such of his concepts as "desire," "fantasy," "the symbolic order" or " the Name-of-the-Father."
目次
Introduction
Part 1: Beginnings
Chapter 1: Disturbing Proximity and Grotesque Proportions When It Comes to First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets
Chapter 2: The Oedipal Siblings in The Cement Garden of Eden
Chapter 3: Anchoring The Comfort Of Strangers in the Sadistic Paternal Superego
Part 2: Developments
Chapter 4: The Child in Time and the Child Within
Chapter 5: The Precariousness of The Innocent Childish Masculinity
Chapter 6: The Traumatic Encounter with Black Dogs and the Real
Chapter 7: Enduring Love, Childlessness, Unreliability, and the Enigma of the Other's Desire
Part 3: Maturity
Chapter 8: The Path Toward Death via Amsterdam
Chapter 9: The Recognition of Otherness in the Fantasy of Atonement
Chapter 10: The Pacifying Saturday Fantasy of a Non-pacifist
Chapter 11: The Big Other Is Watching You Even On Chesil Beach
Part 4: Recent Fiction
Chapter 12: Solar and the Unbearable Heaviness of Desire
Chapter 13: The Opalescent Sweet Tooth of Deceptive Manipulation
Chapter 14: How The Children Act to Effect the Split Between Psychological and Symbolic Identity
Chapter 15: Craving the Mother's Desire in a Nutshell
Conclusion: Love Will Tear Us Apart?
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