Psychoanalysis and the Scene of Reading

by Mary Jacobus

This book explores some of the ways in which we think about reading and the effects reading has on us. It gives a literary critic's approach to the scene of reading understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Whether considered as a process, a representation, or a cultural activity, reading
involves the idea of inner and outer, absence and boundaries, and the transmission of thoughts and feelings between one person or historical period to another.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184344
• ISBN13: 9780198184348
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 5.3"