Abjection and the construction of self in the prose fiction of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett
This thesis analyses the construction of identity in the prose fiction of Genet and Beckett via the figure of abjection. <I>Abjection </I>is understood in both a literary and a psychoanalytical sense; Kristeva's theorisation of a poorly-differentiated pre-Oedipal subject is importan...
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University of Cambridge
1999
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605681 |