"I Really Am a Stranger to Myself": A Lacanian Reading of Identity in John Banville's Eclipse

This essay engages in a Lacanian reading of identity in John Banville’s Eclipse and argues that the protagonist Alex Cleave illustrates certain of Jacques Lacan’s ideas concerning subjectivity and the subject. Alex Cleave has a fragmented sense of identity and experiences alienation as well as loss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kerren, Ulla
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL 2012
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-20430