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Love and Reading: An Essay in Applied Psychoanalysis

Love and Reading: An Essay in Applied Psychoanalysis

Hardcover

Series: American University Studies, Book 25

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

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ISBN10: 0820407631
ISBN13: 9780820407630
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 1 1988
Pages: 192
Language: English
Love and Reading discusses 18th and 19th Century English fiction, the aesthetics of Burke and Kant, and contemporary literary theory. It stresses that language should be referential and argues for a way of reading that would not provide narcissistic gratification: a way of reading that would enable us instead to see through the huge and terrible deception, as Tolstoy put it, that hides both life and death.

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