TY - BOOK ID - 78676408 TI - Lacan and fantasy literature PY - 2017 SN - 9004336583 9789004336582 9789004336575 9004336575 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Fantasy fiction, English KW - Horror fiction, English KW - English fiction KW - Civilization, Modern, in literature. KW - English fantasy fiction KW - Fantastic fiction, English KW - Literature and psychoanalysis KW - Psychoanalytic literary criticism KW - Literature KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. KW - History and criticism. KW - Lacan, Jacques, KW - Lacan, Jacques UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676408 AB - Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula , revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about – primarily sexual – aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses. ER -