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American Modernist Fiction

Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity
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American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory: Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Kay Boyle's Process, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Thornton Wilder's The Cabala, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. Dolis's dynamic readings constitute a spirited "performance" of the narrative, deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism". These psychoanalytic studies simultaneously stage the narrative and re-enact its putative significance, provoke and question its intent, thereby establishing a dialectics of desire-what both affects the body of the narrative and, equally, the critic's subjectivity.
John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.
Introduction: Aperitif: Performance Criticism, Revisited Chapter 1: Amuse-bouche: Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts Chapter 2: Entree: Kay Boyle, Process Chapter 3: Plat principal: Djuna Barnes, Nightwood Chapter 4: Dessert: Thornton Wilder, The Cabala Chapter 5: Digestif: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night Bibliography About the Author
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