![]() | The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Mind and body in literature; This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse. |
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