Figural Space
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Figural Space

Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

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eBook - ePub

Figural Space

Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary

About this book

This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book 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 of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new directions. Kristeva's agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book's argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. However, the book's conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Spenser to Ishiguro. One of the purposes of the book is to demonstrate that Hegel's contribution to modern thought is at least partially exhibited in the history of literature, which also corroborates some of the deeper insights of psychoanalysis.

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Year
2021
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781538147863

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Kristeva and Hegel
  5. Spenser’s Renaissance
  6. Image in Wordsworth
  7. Shelley’s Double Vision
  8. Proust and Aesthetics
  9. Space in Blanchot
  10. Revisiting Jean Rhys
  11. Ishiguro’s Imaginary
  12. Conclusion
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

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