Wallace Stevens : A Lacanian Reading

by Deshmane, Chetan

• ISBN13: 9780786464579
• ISBN10: 0786464577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-31
• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc Pub

Summary

Wallace Stevens' complex poetry often eludes the grasp of the most tenacious reader. This critical text attempts an intensive reading of the most obscure verses through the hermeneutical lens of psychoanalytic criticism. Using Lacanian theory, the book corroborates the suspicion of various critics regarding Stevens' psychical health, examining the nature of its crisis and the cause. Avoiding intentional fallacy, the work concentrates on Stevens' language itself, revealing a use of symbols that characterize neurosis, thus shifting criticism from the poet's person to his text. A useful work for university students, scholars, and teachers alike.

Author Biography

Chetan Deshmane is an associate professor of English at the University of Pune, India. He has published in a number of journals, including The Explicator, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Plath Profiles, South Asian Review, Academic Research, IUP Journal of English Studies, and Asian Quarterly. He is editing a volume of essays on Indian English literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Guide to Abbreviations	p. xi
Preface	p. 1
Prolegomena	p. 5
Neurosis of Winter	p. 14
Bits of Blue	p. 51
Jouissance	p. 85
Rubbings of Reality	p. 124
Apogee	p. 156
Epilogue	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 229
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