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Author Wyatt, Jean.

Title Reconstructing desire : the role of the unconscious in women's reading and writing / by Jean Wyatt.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1990]
©1990

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  823.009 W975R    Check Shelf
Description x, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-262) and index.
Contents Patriarch of one's own : oedipal fantasy and romantic love in Jane Eyre -- Down the yellow brick road : unconcious reading processes and change -- Two stories of Little women : oedipal prescriptions, preoedipal creativity -- Revolutionary languages in The Awakening -- Housekeeping : the impossible poetry of the preoedipal -- Toward a more creative autonomy : To the lighthouse, Violet
Clay, Bodily harm, "How I came to write fiction," and On not being able to paint -- Talking back to Jane Eyre : female sexuality and the intertext of love in The Waterfall -- Sexual politics of the unconscious : The Golden notebook -- Eros as creativity : the extended family in The Color purple -- Family circles : Beloved, The Middle ground, A Weave of women, Housekeeping, Little
women, The Color purple.
Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Subconsciousness in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Women -- Books and reading.
Fantasy in literature.
Desire in literature.
Women in literature.
ISBN 0807819158 alkaline paper
0807842850 paperback alkaline paper
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