1st Edition

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance A Lacanian Perspective

By Shirley Zisser Copyright 2024
112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

112 Pages
by Routledge

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective. The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the paucity of painting, the interest in rhetoric, the emergence of a literary style focusing on... Read more

1 Rhetoric  2 Euphues  3 Orpheus

 

Biography

Shirley Zisser practices Lacanian psychoanalysis in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is a Full Professor and former Chair of English at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy, Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (with Efrat Biberman), and Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Of Unconscious Grammatology (both Routledge).