Narcissism and the Literary Libido Rhetoric, Text, and Subjectivity
What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben...
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Language: | English |
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New York University Press
1994
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