Rudyard Kipling's fiction mapping psychic spaces
This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, focusing particularly on ideas of the abjected maternal feminine. It examines Kipling's ambivalent relationship to the India of his childhoo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2015.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42046361*spi |
| Sumario: | This study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist psychoanalytic methodology of Julia Kristeva and Hélène 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 The Jungle Book and Stalky & Co., Kim, The Day's Work, Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies, Lizzy Welby demonstrates that Kipling created ways of rediscovering a symbolised feminine landscape as a restorative space, which was part of his 'psychic mapping'. |
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| Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (vii, 246 p.) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780748698561 |
