Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity and Strategy in La Regenta (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807892596)

Dislocations of Desire provides the first sustained psychoanalytic reading of La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas. In this unique study, Alison Sinclair focuses on the representation and articulation of desire in the novel. She argues that instead of being seduced by the fiction, what is at stake is sexual desire leading to adultery -- the characteristic fiction of the adultery novel. According to the critic, the reader must learn to look below the surface in order to see the ontological insecurities that this fiction veils and attempts to contain. In a reading that draws both on a broad spectrum of modern psychoanalytic theory and on an understanding of social, sexual, and medical norms of the period in which the novel was written, Sinclair proposes that the adultery story be understood as a coded r?sum? of fantasied, dislocated, repudiated, and thwarted desire.

Author: Alison Sinclair
ISBN-10: 0807892599
ISBN-13: 9780807892596
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1997
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.94w x 0.69d