On pain of speech
Subtitle: fantasies of the first order and the literary rant
By: Dina Al-Kassim.
Series: FlashPoints
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520259256
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Speech acts (Linguistics) in literature; Psychoanalysis in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Protest literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of address; title: On being stubborn: Oscar Wilde and the modern type; title: "The bar was not very gay": new kinship and the serious writer's block; title: "A long tirade for a direct interjection": Talismano rebukes the oriental tale in Jacques Lacan's Seminaires.