Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1984
Published In
The Semantics Of Desire: Changing Models Of Identity From Dickens To Joyce
Abstract
This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.
Published By
Princeton University Press
Recommended Citation
Philip M. Weinstein. (1984). The Semantics Of Desire: Changing Models Of Identity From Dickens To Joyce.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-english-lit/81
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