The king & the adulteress : a psychoanalytic and literary reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King Lear / by Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca ; foreword by Frank Kermode ; English version edited by Colin Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto.

Contributor:

Rice, Colin.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Crescere corvi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.

Flaubert, Gustave.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.

Shakespeare, William.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 162 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Other Title:

King and the adultress

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] ; London : Duke University Press, 1998.

Summary:

The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in the Western canon, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Shakespeare's King Lear. In offering a new understanding of a deeply sadomasochistic relationship and of an authoritarian pathology, psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca combines psychoanalysis with literary studies to challenge the conventional judgments of readers and the stereotyped interpretations of literary critics to these masterpieces. Approaching the characters in Bovary and Lear from both an analytic and a critical viewpoint, Speziale-Bagliacca reinterprets many issues and events that involve archetypal figures of modern literary mythology.

Notes:

"A revised edition of Crescere corvi: psicoanalisi di Madame Bovary e Re Lear."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-157) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0822320754

0822320894

OCLC:

37030676