Desidero ergo sum : on the metaphysics of desire in Felisberto Hernández's "Las Hortensias"
This thesis uses Lacan’s rhetorical understanding of human desire to investigate in greater depth the role of desire in Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández’s 1949 novella Las Hortensias. Chapter one looks at the dynamics of veiling and unveiling, of the female body, and of desire itself, which is...
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University of British Columbia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39800 |