The Portrait of Men and Women in Joyce's Dubliners
Автор:Morteza Tehrani Год: 2014 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 112 ISBN: 9783659505799 The principal purpose of this book is to depict the male and female characters in James Joyce’s Dubliners. While resorting to the ideas and theories of French psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, this book holds a psychoanalytic outlook on reading Dubliners. My major point of departure is to illustrate the portrait of men as well as examining the fragility of their identity according to the French Freud. I then shed light upon the portrait of women and the way they are able to materialize their desires. In this chapter, I also refer to a seminal article entitled “Le Rire de la Meduse”, translated as “The Laugh of the Medusa”, by the French feminist writer and literary critic Helene Cixous, which is drenched in literary and mythological allusions—it is in fact an exhortation to a “feminine mode” of writing. Finally is an exploration of the subterranean desire and its interpretation in “The Dead” and how female Dubliners, after identifying their real subjectivity, counterblow the sovereignty...
