Final Acts : Traversing the Fantasy in the Modern Memoir

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Summary

Analyzes contemporary memoirs of terminal illness from a psychoanalytic perspective.

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Acknowledgments	p. viii
Finite and Infinite Games: Terminal Illness and the Genre of the Literary Memoir	p. 1
The Critical Process of Symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's ""Too Close to the Bone""	p. 27
Working through the Four Discourses: Gillian Rose and the Products of Love's Work	p. 45
Harold Brodkey's Traversal of Fiction: This Wild Darkness as La Passe	p. 73
Modern Frame for the Postmodern Image: Reclaiming the Gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern Nature and Blue	p. 107
Conclusion The Genre of the Unconscious	p. 139
Notes	p. 145
Works Cited	p. 155
Index	p. 163
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