Final Acts: Traversing the Fantasy in the Modern Memoir
Author:   Tom Ratekin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
ISBN:  

9781438427300


Pages:   175
Publication Date:   02 July 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This title analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

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Author:   Tom Ratekin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781438427300


ISBN 10:   1438427301
Pages:   175
Publication Date:   02 July 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments 1. Finite and Infi nite Games: Terminal Illness and the Genre of the Literary Memoir 2. The Critical Process of Symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's ""Too Close to the Bone"" 3. Working through the Four Discourses: Gillian Rose and the Products of Love's Work 4. Harold Brodkey's Traversal of Fiction: This Wild Darkness as La Passe 5. Modern Frame for the Postmodern Image: Reclaiming the Gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern Nature and Blue Conclusion: The Genre of the Unconscious Notes Works Cited Index"

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A few pages into the text and it is easy to understand that Final Acts: Traversing the Fantasy in the Modern Memoir by Tom Ratekin will interest a large radius of writers, psychologists and specialists involved in the area of terminal care. It presents new and interesting territory relating to the twentieth century memoir boom and the work of writer patients facing death. - M/C Reviews


"""A few pages into the text and it is easy to understand that Final Acts: Traversing the Fantasy in the Modern Memoir by Tom Ratekin will interest a large radius of writers, psychologists and specialists involved in the area of terminal care. It presents new and interesting territory relating to the twentieth century memoir boom and the work of writer patients facing death."" - M/C Reviews"


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Tom Ratekin teaches English at Barnard College.

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