{"product_id":"9781405188609","title":"A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture","description":"\u003ch3\u003eConcise Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLaura Marcus | Ankhi Mukherjee\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSpans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She was previously Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century literature and culture, with particular focus on modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture, life writing, literature and film, the history of psychoanalysis, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and the forthcoming books \u003ci\u003eDreams of Modernity: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eAutobiography: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnkhi Mukherjee\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford. She was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of English. Her research interests include nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century British, Anglophone, and world literatures, with particular focus on critical and cultural theory, intellectual history, the novel, postcolonial studies, and psychoanalysis. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eAesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 June 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781405188609\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e464\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315614609548,"sku":"9781405188609","price":176.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781405188609_b5199886-6465-4930-82c2-1d917af4ddce.jpg?v=1780116639","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781405188609","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}