CHAPTER ELEVEN: Desire without a Transcendent Object: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping.
Chapter 11 of the book "Loving Subjects: Narratives of Female Desire" is presented. The chapter examines the novel "Housekeeping," by Marilynne Robinson. It notes that the novel shows the notion of a universal lack of desire that concerns the memory of a lost plenitude instead of the hope of a futur...
| Publicado en: | Loving Subjects: Narratives of Female Desire Vol. 195; pp. 223 - 238 |
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| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
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Peter Lang Group
2002
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| Sumario: | Chapter 11 of the book "Loving Subjects: Narratives of Female Desire" is presented. The chapter examines the novel "Housekeeping," by Marilynne Robinson. It notes that the novel shows the notion of a universal lack of desire that concerns the memory of a lost plenitude instead of the hope of a future restoration and of language through its protagonist Ruth Stone. It mentions that the houses and the housekeeping in the novel stand as metaphors for the abstract structures that shelter people. |
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