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Rudyard Kipling's Fiction: Mapping Psychic Spaces (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup)
Lizzy Welby
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Description for Rudyard Kipling's Fiction: Mapping Psychic Spaces (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup)
Hardcover. Provides an reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. This book examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his art. This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space. From readings of the 1888 story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' through ... Read more
Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his art. This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Helene Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhood and the 'loss' of his mother figures. In doing so, it peels back the layers of masculine bravado that continues to characterize Kipling's fiction to reveal a valorized 'feminine' space. From readings of the 1888 story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep' through ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748698554
SKU
V9780748698554
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About Lizzy Welby
Lizzy Welby teaches at the College Fancais Bilingue de Londres, London.
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