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I have a Ph.D. degree in Anglophone Literature and Culture from the U of Athens, Greece. I am the author of one book titled :The Vicissitudes of Victorian Masculinity: The Case of the Bachelor. I have published several articles on gender and psychoanalysis in academic journals. I am an independent researcher focusing on Victorian gender representation and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Address: Athens, Greece
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Victorian canonical realist fiction was presumably the means of representing dominant ideological... more Victorian canonical realist fiction was presumably the means of representing dominant ideological conventions especially those related to gender roles and norms. This dissertation argues that fictional bachelor figures evaded the contemporary construction of normative manhood, veering away from traditional masculine prerogatives, thus disrupting the cultural ideal of bourgeois domesticity which was part of the imperialist and industrialist expansion of the Anglo-Saxon world. Contemporary theoretical research in psychoanalysis and gender theory deconstructs what patriarchal ideology had so carefully constructed in terms of normative concepts of gender roles and relations. In my dissertation I contend that from the point of view of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic concepts and Judith Butler’s insights into gender theory, Victorian bachelor figures are unrepresentable as masculine subjects within Victorian ideology as they do not fulfill their cultural gender objectives. In order to esta...
This book is a compilation of essays researching Henry James’s ghostly tales. As both editors sta... more This book is a compilation of essays researching Henry James’s ghostly tales. As both editors state in their introduction to the volume, the book actually aims not only at dealing with the ghostly in terms of its supernatural element but also at scrutinizing it as a narrative technique, a strategy which endowed James’s oeuvre with a realistic, proto-modernist quality “giving it the elusiveness it is so much celebrated for” (1). Both editors also point out that James’s concern with the supern...
European Journal of American Studies, 2015
Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity is a compilation of critical essays addressing the issue... more Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity is a compilation of critical essays addressing the issue of duplicity in the Jamesian oeuvre. In the editor’s preface, Dennis Tredy, quite eloquently and most perceptively, distinguishes between the various aspects of duplicity encountered in James’s work. Duplicity, he argues, was for James “a multi-purpose representational tool” which more often than not enabled the author to create texts fraught with semantic undecideability operating at different ...
European Journal of American Studies, 2017
Jean Michel-Rabate, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis Cambridge and New... more Jean Michel-Rabate, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 262. ISBN: 9781107423916. Maria Pirgerou University of Nottingham Jean Michel-Rabate introduces his argument by referring us to the letters Sigmund Freud exchanged with Eduard Silberstein–their correspondence lasted for more than ten years—in which, Rabate argues, Freud actually laid the foundations of psychoanalysis by means of personal introspection. ...
European Journal of American Studies, Mar 26, 2012
Victorian canonical realist fiction was presumably the means of representing dominant ideological... more Victorian canonical realist fiction was presumably the means of representing dominant ideological conventions especially those related to gender roles and norms. This dissertation argues that fictional bachelor figures evaded the contemporary construction of normative manhood, veering away from traditional masculine prerogatives, thus disrupting the cultural ideal of bourgeois domesticity which was part of the imperialist and industrialist expansion of the Anglo-Saxon world. Contemporary theoretical research in psychoanalysis and gender theory deconstructs what patriarchal ideology had so carefully constructed in terms of normative concepts of gender roles and relations. In my dissertation I contend that from the point of view of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic concepts and Judith Butler’s insights into gender theory, Victorian bachelor figures are unrepresentable as masculine subjects within Victorian ideology as they do not fulfill their cultural gender objectives. In order to esta...
This book is a compilation of essays researching Henry James’s ghostly tales. As both editors sta... more This book is a compilation of essays researching Henry James’s ghostly tales. As both editors state in their introduction to the volume, the book actually aims not only at dealing with the ghostly in terms of its supernatural element but also at scrutinizing it as a narrative technique, a strategy which endowed James’s oeuvre with a realistic, proto-modernist quality “giving it the elusiveness it is so much celebrated for” (1). Both editors also point out that James’s concern with the supern...
European Journal of American Studies, 2015
Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity is a compilation of critical essays addressing the issue... more Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity is a compilation of critical essays addressing the issue of duplicity in the Jamesian oeuvre. In the editor’s preface, Dennis Tredy, quite eloquently and most perceptively, distinguishes between the various aspects of duplicity encountered in James’s work. Duplicity, he argues, was for James “a multi-purpose representational tool” which more often than not enabled the author to create texts fraught with semantic undecideability operating at different ...
European Journal of American Studies, 2017
Jean Michel-Rabate, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis Cambridge and New... more Jean Michel-Rabate, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 262. ISBN: 9781107423916. Maria Pirgerou University of Nottingham Jean Michel-Rabate introduces his argument by referring us to the letters Sigmund Freud exchanged with Eduard Silberstein–their correspondence lasted for more than ten years—in which, Rabate argues, Freud actually laid the foundations of psychoanalysis by means of personal introspection. ...
European Journal of American Studies, Mar 26, 2012