Figural Space: Semiotic and the Aesthetic Imaginary
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Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Description
This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. It begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution in Poetic Language, and then modified in later publications. Kristeva’s agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book’s argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. The book’s conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Edmund Spenser, Wordsworth and Shelley as well as Proust, Jean Rhys and Kazuo Ishiguro.
ISBN
978-1-5381-4785-6
Publication Date
4-2021
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
City
Blue Ridge Summit
Keywords
Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Psychology, Movements, Psychoanalysis
Series
Global Aesthetic Research
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Philosophy | Psychology
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Melaney, W. D.
(2021).Figural Space: Semiotic and the Aesthetic Imaginary. Rowman & Littlefield International.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/154
MLA Citation
Melaney, William Donald
Figural Space: Semiotic and the Aesthetic Imaginary. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/154