Dwelling in Language ― Character, Psychoanalysis and Literary Consolations

For some time, character has been uncomfortably situated between the mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. In this volume, attempting to resolve where we are to place character, Lacan's ideas about language and ethics is considered, at the same time shaking readers out of evoking the insentient nature of subjectivity. The essays here cover necessary fictions, including situating character, narcissus from Ovid to Freud, the theory of the subject, the other's desire, transference, and St. Mawr's characters and ethics. Case studies in the study of literature include the psychology of Old English poetry, Graham Smith's last orders, creation in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Bergson and Lacan in Woolf's Lighthouse. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Margret Gunnarsdottir Champion is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), where she teaches British literature and literary theory. Her current research focuses on English literature in the 1920s, the new French philosophy, psychoanalysis and gender, transculturalism, and the concept of medievalism.