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Joyce through Lacan and Žižek : Explorations /

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brivic, Shelly (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Psycholinguistics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 267 pages)
ISBN:9780230615717
DOI:10.1057/9780230615717