Title: Final acts : traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir /
Authors: Ratekin, Tom.; State University of New York.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Literature, Modern Psychological aspects.; Autobiographical memory in literature.; Terminally ill Psychology; Semiotics and literature.; Authorship.; Krankheit.; Literatur.; Moderne.; Psychologie.
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.