States of fantasy / Jacqueline Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Jacqueline

Series:

Clarendon lectures in English literature

The Clarendon lectures in English literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

English literature--Study and teaching.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1996.

Summary:

In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first nonracial elections. Jacqueline Rose argues here for the importance of these two arenas of historic conflict to the English literary and cultural imagination and to the new disciplinary boundaries of the humanities today. As in her previous books, her fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities. But in States of Fantasy she pushes her investigation into what at first glance seem unlikely places. In fact, as she convincingly demonstrates, nowhere demonstrates more clearly than the above regions the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. And nothing makes more visible the unbreakable line that runs between literature and politics than the place of England and its writing in those histories. Her provocative study offers the strongest rebuttal to critics who try to sever the links between the study of literature and culture and the making and unmaking of the modern world.

Notes:

The central chapters were delivered in their original form as the Clarendon Lectures in Oxford in May, 1994; the Afterword is the inaugural lecture delivered at Queen Mary and Westfield College in October, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [150]-169) and index.

ISBN:

0198182805

OCLC:

33101802