Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415938501)

An examination of the importance of oral experience as reflected in literature, Word of Mouth extends psychoanalytic theory as forwarded by Freud, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, and Julia Kristeva. The meaning of oral experience is explored with reference to several texts, looking at the oral bond between mother and child in Proust and questions of disordered eating, raised by aggressive orality, found in Conrad's Heart of Darkness . Throughout, the author draws forth the myriad expressions relating the desires and dramas of the mouth, its pervasive pleasures and its dreads.

Author: Susanne M. Skubal
ISBN-10: 0415938503
ISBN-13: 9780415938501
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2002
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.12w x 0.86d