Absent mothers and orphaned fathers

Autori

• Susan E. Gustafson

Parametri

• Letteratura mondiale
• Narrativa
• Kritik

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Gustafson provides a comprehensive overview of Lessing's comments on the structure and purpose of the domestic tragedy within the context of his Laokoon essay, demonstrating that the fundamental psychic-deep structures informing his aesthetic and dramatic production are male narcissism and the abjection of the woman/the mother. As opposed to earlier studies of gender/generic questions in Lessing's dramas, this analysis explicates the theoretical basis for the rigid codification of gender which informs Lessing's fictional symbolic order.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1995