Final acts
Subtitle: traversing the fantasy in the modern memoir
By: Tom Ratekin.
Contributors: State University of New York.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438427294
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- Psychological aspects.; Autobiographical memory in literature.; Terminally ill -- Psychology.; Semiotics and literature.; Authorship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Finite and infinite games: terminal illness and the genre of the literary memoir; title: The critical process of symptom to sinthome: Allon White's 'Too close to the bone'; title: Working through the four discourses: Gillian Rose and the products of Love's work; title: Harold Brodkey's traversal of fiction: This wild darkness as la passe; title: Modern frame for the postmodern image: reclaiming the gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern nature and Blue; title: The genre of the unconscious.