Publication

1998 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

40,500 words, Guess

Page Count

162 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivekingadulteressps00spez
  • ISBN-100822320754
  • ISBN-100822320894
  • ISBN-139780822320753
  • ISBN-139780822320890
and 5 more
  • Goodreads960567', '554544
  • LibraryThing6286020
  • Library of Congress Control Number97017772
  • Better World Books9780822320890
  • Open LibraryOL671767M

Classifications

  • DDC843/.8
  • LCCPQ2246.M3 S66 1998
  • LCCPQ2246.M3S66 1998

Alternate Titles

  • King and the adultress

Description

The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in the Western canon, Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Shakespeare's King Lear. In offering a new understanding of a deeply sadomasochistic relationship and of an authoritarian pathology, psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca combines psychoanalysis with literary studies to challenge the conventional judgments of readers and the stereotyped interpretations of literary critics to these masterpieces. Approaching the characters in Bovary and Lear from both an analytic and a critical viewpoint, Speziale-Bagliacca reinterprets many issues and events that involve archetypal figures of modern literary mythology.

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  • The king & the adultress: a psychoanalytical and literary reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King LearDuke University Press1998-01-01

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