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If Madame Bovary's death in Flaubert's 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of implications for literature dealing with illness. The theorization of a potential unconscious double (capable of expressing the body, and thus also the intimate damage caused by disease) in turn suggested a capacity to subvert or destabilize the text, exposing the main thread of the narrative to be unreliable or self-conscious. Indeed, the authors examined in this study (Italo Svevo (1861-1928), Giorgio Pressburger (1937-) and Giuliana Morandini (1938-)) all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness to cast doubt on a more (conventionally) dominant narrative standpoint. Applying the theories of Freud and more recent writings by Julia Kristeva, Bond offers a new critical reading of the literary function of illness, a function related to the very nature of narration itself.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Disrupted Narratives
• Author: Emma Bond
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9781907975387
• ISBN: 1907975381
• ID: 05028431
• Publisher: Maney Publishing
• Weight: 574 g
• Dimensions: 181 × 255 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. May 2012

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