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- Title
From elocution to alienation: A Lacanian reading of Gogol's 'The Overcoat'.
- Authors
St-Louis, Tatiana
- Abstract
Critics have traditionally adopted a humanistic and sentimental approach to Gogol's work. A Lacanian analysis of Gogol's 'The Overcoat' exposes the failings of other theoretical schools by offering a crucial reconsideration of intersubjectivity in the story. Gogol's essential challenge of how to exist in a world regulated by verbal exchange becomes evident through a Lacanian reading. If we consider the literary text as a typical insertion of the subject into the symbolic realm, we may analyse through the skaz/narrative, the enunciation, the relationship between Gogol and the alienating structure of the Big Other. Stylistically, the resistance shown in the ambiguous narrative structure helps discredit a socio-sentimentalist theory that suggests emotional attachment for the protagonist.
- Subjects
ELOCUTION; ALIENATION (Rhetoric); GOGOL, Nikolai Vasilevich, 1809-1852; PROTAGONISTS (Persons); PSYCHOLOGICAL criticism
- Publication
Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, 2012, Vol 1, Issue 2, p235
- ISSN
2043-0701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/fict.1.2.235_1