The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce.

Weinstein, Philip:

ISBN 10: 0691065942 ISBN 13: 9780691065946

Published by Princeton University Press, 1984

Language: English

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The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

0691065942

ISBN 13

9780691065946

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good

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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.

Originally published in 1984.

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Philip M. Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College.

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