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The Purloined Poe : Lacan, Derrida & psychoanalytic reading /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Muller, John P., 1940-, Richardson, William J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988]
Subjects:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849. > Purloined letter.
Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Derrida, Jacques.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States.
Psychology in literature.
English literature > American writers > Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 - Critical studies
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981 > Et la critique.
Derrida, Jacques > Et la critique.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
The purloined letter (Poe)
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Poe and Lacan
  • Text of "The purloined letter," with notes / Thomas Ollive Mabbott
  • Seminar on "The purloined letter" / Jacques Lacan ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman
  • Lucan's seminar on "The purloined letter" : an overview
  • Lacan's seminar on "The purloined letter" : map of the text
  • Lacan's seminar on "The purloined letter" : notes to the text
  • Part II. On psychoanalytic reading
  • Selections from The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe : a psycho-analytic interpretation / Marie Bonaparte
  • On reading poetry : reflections on the limits and possibilities of psychoanalytic approaches / Shoshana Felman
  • Part III. Derrida and responses
  • The challenge of deconstruction
  • The Purveyor of truth / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Alan Bass
  • The frame of reference : Poe, Lacan, Derrida / Barbara Johnson
  • Structures of exemplarity in Poe, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida / Irene Harvey
  • The American other / Jane Gallop
  • Part IV. Other readings
  • Narratorial authority and "The purloined letter" / Ross Chambers
  • Re-covering "The purloined letter" : reading as a personal transaction / Norman N. Holland
  • The shadow's shadow : the motif of the double in Edgar Allan Poe's "The purloined letter / Lianha Klenman Babener
  • A note on time in "The purloined letter" / Francois Peraldi
  • Negation in "The purloined letter" : Hegel, Poe, and Lacan / John Muller.