Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction

by Gabriele Schwab

Book Overview

How do aesthetic forms contribute to different kinds of cultural knowledge? Gabriele Schwab responds to this question with an analysis of the nature of subjectivity in modernist fiction. Drawing on French and Anglo-American psychoanalysis as well as reader response theory, she explores the relationship between language and subjectivity and in so doing illuminates the cultural politics and psychological functions implicit in the aesthetic practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674853814
• ISBN13: 9780674853812
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"