Final acts : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir

Final acts : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir /

Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Ratekin, Tom
Corporate Author:	State University of New York
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2009
Series:	SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > Psychological aspects. Autobiographical memory in literature. Terminally ill > Psychology. Semiotics and literature. Authorship. authorship.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Finite and infinite games: terminal illness and the genre of the literary memoir
The critical process of symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's "Too close to the bone"
Working through the four discourses: Gillian Rose and the products of Love's work
Harold Brodkey's traversal of fiction: This wild darkness as La passe
Modern frame for the postmodern image: reclaiming the gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern nature and Blue
The genre of the unconscious.