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Unconscious Structure in The Idiot: A Study in Literature and Psychoanalysis
By (Author) Elizabeth Dalton
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
891.733
Hardback
250
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental unconscious structure governing meaning and form in the literary text, Elizabeth Dalton presents both a new and lucid reformulation of the theory of psychoanalytic criticism and a penetrating study of Dostoevsky's great novel, The Id