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The reader's quest : reading and the constitution of meaning in five novels
In this thesis, I attempt to show how the concept of reading as literary interpretation has been influenced by the insights of the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Broadly speaking, I call for a revised view of the role of the reader and the act of reading in the light of argume...
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Department of English Language and Literature
2016
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