American Modernist Fiction: Psychoanalytic Recitations of Identity - Hardcover

by John Dolis (Author)

This book addresses five American Modernist novels in light of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Deploying his own innovative form of literary analysis, what he calls "performance criticism," Dolis (psycho)analyzes the narrative unconscious of each text to excavate a discourse "other" than the story being "told."

Author Biography

John Dolis is professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Penn State University, Scranton.