The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition Essays Toward the Release of Shakespeare's Will - October Books

Joel Fineman was considered one of the most brilliant literary critics of his generation, gifted in doing what the Russian formalists called "making strange." His essays are among the strongest demonstrations of how structures-whether linguistic, visual, or architectural-generate large and elaborate systems of meaning. Using examples drawn from literature-Chaucer, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde-Fineman creates parables of how language has come to constitute the modern subject (ourselves) as a set of its "effects." Combining formidable learning with theoretical sophistication that is at once philosophical, linguistic, and psychoanalytical, Fineman draws from the most familiar work verbal details that lead to startling new interpretations, challenging Freud or making original applications of Lacan. The repercussion of his writings on theory and on nonliterary discourse is considerable, particularly among critics engaged in showing how artistic practice can be understood, structurally, to signify. EssaysThe Structure of Allegorical Desire  The Significance of Literature: The Importance of Being Earnest  "The Pas de Calais": Freud, the Transference, and the Sense of Woman's Humor  The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction  Shakespeare's "Perjur'd Eye"  The Turn of the Shrew  The Sound of 0 in Othello: The Real of the Tragedy of Desire  Shakespeare's Will: The Temporality of Rape  Shakespeare's Ear

ISBN:	9780262561792
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	01 Apr 1991
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	590g
Height:	229mm
Width:	178mm
Spine width:	14mm

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