Feigning Reason: Hamlet and the Dynamics of Desire in Graham Swift's Ever After

被引：2

作者：

Lea, Daniel ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Oxford Brookes Univ, Oxford OX3 0BP, England

来源：

CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION | 2009年 / 50卷 / 02期

关键词：

desire; Hamlet; intertextuality; Jacques Lacan; Graham Swift;

D O I：

10.3200/CRIT.50.2.155-170

中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

This essay explores the intertextual debt to Hamlet in Graham Swift's Ever After. Employing Jacques Lacan's reading of desire in "Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet," the author argues that Bill Unwin's paralysis of subjective agency encourages his identification with Hamlet so as to fix himself within the symbolic order. Unlike Hamlet, however, Unwin faces not only the crisis of the father's law, but postmodernity's collapse of symbolic authority.

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页码：155 / 169

页数：15