Desire and Its Discontents / Eugene Goodheart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodheart, Eugene, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's Death in Venice, Ford's The Good Soldier, and Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Also examines D.H. Lawrence and the tyranny of desire, the Freudian narrative and the case of Jacques Lacan, and postmodern meditations on the self.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Desire

1. Conrad's Heart of Darkness: Allegory of Enlightenment

2. The Art of Ambivalence: Mann's Death in Venice

3. D. H. Lawrence and the Tyranny of Desire

4. What Dowell Knew: A Reading of Ford's The Good Soldier

5. Family, Incest, and Transcendence in Brontë's Wuthering Heights

6. Desire and Its Discontents

7. Freudian Narrative and the Case of Jacques Lacan

8. "Postmodern" Meditations on the Self: The Work of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

9. Desire and the Self

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780231880749

023188074X

OCLC:

1100429994