The leprous man [electronic resource] : a psychoanalytical investigation into Stephen Donaldson's fantasy novels / Kate Simons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2010.Description: x, 228 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.O469 Z85 2010eb
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Contents:
Setting the scene: Donaldson and the fantasy genre -- Thinking psychoanalytically -- The perilous "other" -- Desire and the mother -- The uncanny: the familiar made strange -- The abject and incest -- The leprous father -- The father and his cannibal horde -- The double-bind of perversion -- Vision, psychosis and the question of mirrors -- Leprosy, narcissus and hop-board.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-224) and index.

Setting the scene: Donaldson and the fantasy genre -- Thinking psychoanalytically -- The perilous "other" -- Desire and the mother -- The uncanny: the familiar made strange -- The abject and incest -- The leprous father -- The father and his cannibal horde -- The double-bind of perversion -- Vision, psychosis and the question of mirrors -- Leprosy, narcissus and hop-board.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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