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Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crims... more This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and Lucinda Coxon’s BBC adaptation (directed by Marc Munden, 2011) navigated by the irrevocably sexed female body, and the tension over seizing and stabilising the narratives over those bodies. The chapter focuses primarily on Agnes Rackham, an embattled upper-class matriarch driven to denial of her motherhood through the religiously informed paradox of the procreative and incarcerated female body. The many intertextual references woven into the book and also its television adaptation (The Exorcist, Jane Eyre and The Woman in White) provide a context for the contemporary reader to grasp the horrific dilemmas of Victorian femininity. Though each of the women are destined for some kind of narrative oblivion (through desertion, watery graves or the threat of the asylum), each must first travel through madness to escape.

Research paper thumbnail of Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses (review)

Criticism-a Quarterly for Literature and The Arts, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence

... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, M... more ... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, Masochism, and the Beating Fantasy 87 The Lacanian Perplex 92 Fantastic Narratives: Deleuze and Sacher-Masoch 98 Proust: Memory, Fantasy, and Nostalgia 106 Masochism ...

Research paper thumbnail of Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life

CLCWeb, Jan 29, 2023

Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:

Research paper thumbnail of Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the ghosts of modernity: masculinity, tradition, and the anxiety of influence

... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, M... more ... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, Masochism, and the Beating Fantasy 87 The Lacanian Perplex 92 Fantastic Narratives: Deleuze and Sacher-Masoch 98 Proust: Memory, Fantasy, and Nostalgia 106 Masochism ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crims... more This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and Lucinda Coxon’s BBC adaptation (directed by Marc Munden, 2011) navigated by the irrevocably sexed female body, and the tension over seizing and stabilising the narratives over those bodies. The chapter focuses primarily on Agnes Rackham, an embattled upper-class matriarch driven to denial of her motherhood through the religiously informed paradox of the procreative and incarcerated female body. The many intertextual references woven into the book and also its television adaptation (The Exorcist, Jane Eyre and The Woman in White) provide a context for the contemporary reader to grasp the horrific dilemmas of Victorian femininity. Though each of the women are destined for some kind of narrative oblivion (through desertion, watery graves or the threat of the asylum), each must first travel through madness to escape.

Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence

To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores th... more To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the intellectual and artistic movements of the modernist period. More specifically, it examines masculine anxiety in the modernist novel in terms of Lacan's work on psychosis, masochism, and narcissism, viewed against the broader cultural context of the modernist era. In the process, this book illustrates how Lacan's intellectual apprenticeships and encounters (both real and imaginary) play out in his mature work, beginning with the first seminars of the 1950s. Like other thinkers of the early twentieth century, the trajectory of Lacan's psychoanalytic career is shaped by tendentious confrontations with peers, forebears, and intellectual traditions.

Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses (review)

Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crims... more This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and Lucinda Coxon’s BBC adaptation (directed by Marc Munden, 2011) navigated by the irrevocably sexed female body, and the tension over seizing and stabilising the narratives over those bodies. The chapter focuses primarily on Agnes Rackham, an embattled upper-class matriarch driven to denial of her motherhood through the religiously informed paradox of the procreative and incarcerated female body. The many intertextual references woven into the book and also its television adaptation (The Exorcist, Jane Eyre and The Woman in White) provide a context for the contemporary reader to grasp the horrific dilemmas of Victorian femininity. Though each of the women are destined for some kind of narrative oblivion (through desertion, watery graves or the threat of the asylum), each must first travel through madness to escape.

Research paper thumbnail of Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses (review)

Criticism-a Quarterly for Literature and The Arts, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence

... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, M... more ... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, Masochism, and the Beating Fantasy 87 The Lacanian Perplex 92 Fantastic Narratives: Deleuze and Sacher-Masoch 98 Proust: Memory, Fantasy, and Nostalgia 106 Masochism ...

Research paper thumbnail of Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life

CLCWeb, Jan 29, 2023

Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:

Research paper thumbnail of Amazon Web Services, the Lacanian Unconscious, and Digital Life

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press... more Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact:

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the ghosts of modernity: masculinity, tradition, and the anxiety of influence

... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, M... more ... viii Contents 4. Masochism: Reading Fantasy with Lacan, Sacher-Masoch, 86 and Proust Freud, Masochism, and the Beating Fantasy 87 The Lacanian Perplex 92 Fantastic Narratives: Deleuze and Sacher-Masoch 98 Proust: Memory, Fantasy, and Nostalgia 106 Masochism ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Dear Holy Sister”: Narrating Madness, Bodily Horror and Religious Ecstasy in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White

This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crims... more This chapter examines the layers of anxiety and insanity in both Michael Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and the White (2002) and Lucinda Coxon’s BBC adaptation (directed by Marc Munden, 2011) navigated by the irrevocably sexed female body, and the tension over seizing and stabilising the narratives over those bodies. The chapter focuses primarily on Agnes Rackham, an embattled upper-class matriarch driven to denial of her motherhood through the religiously informed paradox of the procreative and incarcerated female body. The many intertextual references woven into the book and also its television adaptation (The Exorcist, Jane Eyre and The Woman in White) provide a context for the contemporary reader to grasp the horrific dilemmas of Victorian femininity. Though each of the women are destined for some kind of narrative oblivion (through desertion, watery graves or the threat of the asylum), each must first travel through madness to escape.

Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity: Masculinity, Tradition, and the Anxiety of Influence

To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores th... more To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the intellectual and artistic movements of the modernist period. More specifically, it examines masculine anxiety in the modernist novel in terms of Lacan's work on psychosis, masochism, and narcissism, viewed against the broader cultural context of the modernist era. In the process, this book illustrates how Lacan's intellectual apprenticeships and encounters (both real and imaginary) play out in his mature work, beginning with the first seminars of the 1950s. Like other thinkers of the early twentieth century, the trajectory of Lacan's psychoanalytic career is shaped by tendentious confrontations with peers, forebears, and intellectual traditions.

Research paper thumbnail of Significant returns: Lacan, masculinity, and modernist traditions

... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Sem... more ... The subsequent chapters on Proust, Sacher-Masoch, and Joyce, read with the later Lacan of Seminars XX and available sections of XXIII, explore and flesh out possible Lacanian readings of masochism and narcissism with regard to paternal (or pseudo-paternal) relationships. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses (review)