Jean-Michel Rabaté
Auteur de The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
A propos de l'auteur
Jean-Michel Rabate is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Œuvres de Jean-Michel Rabaté
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) (2014) 5 exemplaires
After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century (After Series) (2018) 3 exemplaires
The Ghosts of Modernity (Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature an) (1996) 3 exemplaires
Maurice Darantière : les années vingt 1 exemplaire
Encounters with Soun-Gui Kim : writings, 1975-2021 = Recontres avec Soun-Gui Kim : l'oeuvre ecrit, 1975-2021 = 김… (2022) 1 exemplaire
The Ghosts of Modernity (Crosscurrents) 1 exemplaire
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) 1 exemplaire
Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) (2019) 1 exemplaire
"Narratology and the Subject of Finnegans Wake" 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Rabaté, Jean-Michel
- Autres noms
- Rabate. Jean-Michel
- Date de naissance
- 1949
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- France
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- Œuvres
- 36
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 287
- Popularité
- #81,379
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 103
- Langues
- 1
The particular angle of this book is to explore the relationship between Lacan and literature. The first three chapters are a testament to the qualities in Rabaté that I just praised: a lucid explanation of what Lacan means by "letters" and "literature," and how he sees the connection between them in his theory.
I did, however, feel a bit let down by rest of the book, which provides detailed (and often insightful) commentaries of Lacan's engagements with Poe (Ch.4), Hamlet (Ch.5), Antigone (Ch.6), Sade (Ch.7), Duras (Ch.8), and Joyce (Ch.9). It's not that Rabaté's ideas are bad, quite the contrary, it's just that these chapters felt a bit too much like they were aimed at the level of a textbook rather than a challenging and rigorous academic work. I wanted a little more meat on this particular bone.
There is always something to be learned from reading Rabaté on Lacan, and I did gain some new insights and ideas. On the whole, though, the level of ambition of this book was, for me, too low, as many of the concepts dealt with here I could get simply from reading Lacan. Rabaté's book did help to clarify a number of points, however, and overall it is worth reading.… (plus d'informations)