The leprous man a psychoanalytical investigation into Stephen Donaldson's fantasy novels /

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Main Author: Simons, Kate, 1944-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene: Donaldson and the fantasy genre
  • Thinking psychoanalytically
  • The perilous "other"
  • Desire and the mother
  • The uncanny: the familiar made strange
  • The abject and incest
  • The leprous father
  • The father and his cannibal horde
  • The double-bind of perversion
  • Vision, psychosis and the question of mirrors
  • Leprosy, narcissus and hop-board.