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Author Alcorn, Marshall W., 1949-

Title Narcissism and the literary libido : rhetoric, text, and subjectivity / Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages)
Contents Foreword / Jeffrey Berman -- 1. Political ties and libidinal ruptures: Narcissism as the origin and end of textual production -- 2. Self-structure as a rhetorical device: Modern ethos and the divisiveness of the self -- 3. Projection and the resistance of the signifier: A reader-response theory of textual presence -- 4. Character, plot, and imagery: Mechanisms that shift narcissistic investments -- 5. The narcissism of creation and interpretation: Agon at the Heart of Darkness -- 6. Language and the substance of the self: A Lacanian perspective -- 7. Conclusion: What do we do with rhetorical criticism?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Note Print version record.
Subject Narration (Rhetoric)
Subjectivity in literature.
Narcissism in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Narcissism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01032749
Narration (Rhetoric) (OCoLC)fst01032927
Psychoanalysis and literature. (OCoLC)fst01081273
Subjectivity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01136579
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Other Form: Print version: Alcorn, Marshall W., 1949- Narcissism and the literary libido. New York : New York University Press, ©1994 (DLC) 93025793
ISBN 9780814707517 (electronic bk.)
0814707513 (electronic bk.)
0814706142 (alk. paper)
9780814706657
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