{"product_id":"dwelling-in-language","title":"Dwelling in Language","description":"Since the heyday of narratology, character has been a contested theoretical field, moving uneasily between mimetic, structuralist and interdisciplinary paradigms. Built on Jacques Lacan’s ideas about subjectivity, langugage and ethics, \u003ci\u003eDwelling in Language \u003c\/i\u003ebroaches new ground by exploring character’s ontological identity, its mode of being in literature. Through an alternative poetics, anchored in the Lacanian subject, the author’s readings of a variety of texts from medieval poetry to the contemporary novel aim at defamiliarizing the realist premise of previous investigations: character is shown to be a phenomenon of viscerality, narcissistically binding readers to the fiction, but at the same time subverting that bond by evoking the insentient materiality of signification.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259025248600,"sku":"9783631644379","price":76.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631644379.jpg?v=1764639033","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dwelling-in-language","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}