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Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature
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Lacan, Foucault, and the Malleable Subject in Early Modern English Utopian Literature

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1032238410
ISBN-13 9781032238418
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 13th, 2021
Print length 274 Pages
Weight 453 grams
Ksh 8,300.00
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"By applying the thought of both Lacan and Foucault, this study describes the formation of constructed utopian subjectivity and demonstrate new ways in which the thought of Lacan and Foucault inform and complement each other when applied to literary texts.

Theoretically informed scholarship on early modern English utopian literature has largely focused on Marxist interpretation of these texts in an attempt to characterize them as proto- Marxist. The present volume instead focuses on subjectivity in early modern English utopian writing by using these texts as case studies to explore intersections of the thought of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. Both Lacan and Foucault moved back and forth between structuralist and post-structuralist intellectual trends and ultimately both defy strict categorization into either camp. Although numerous studies have appeared that compare Lacan’s and Foucault’s thought, there have been relatively few applications of their thought together onto literature. By applying the thought of both theorists, who were not literary critics, to readings of early modern English utopian literature, this study will, on the one hand, describe the formation of utopian subjectivity that is both psychoanalytically (Oedipal and pre-Oedipal) and socially constructed, and, on the other hand, demonstrate new ways in which the thought of Lacan and Foucault inform and complement each other when applied to literary texts. The utopian subject is a malleable subject, a subject whose linguistic, psychoanalytical subjectivity determines the extent to which environmental and social factors manifest in an identity that moves among Lacan’s Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real.


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