Abstract
This article investigates the literary technique with which Patrick McGrath opposes two narrators and illustrates how the subtle story of one of them, Constance, deconstructs the apparently dominant discourse of the second narrator, Sidney. This article furthermore refutes the current critical interpretation of Constance as a hysteric and demonstrates that it is Sidney who deliberately constructs this notion of hysteria and who himself – paradoxically – can be linked to Histrionic Personality Disorder. This article finally explores how Constance experiences what Abraham and Torok called transgenerational haunting and how this psychoanalytic theory is reinforced and commented upon by a series of metaphors.
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- Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Books Received
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Articles
- The Horrors of the Oriental Space and Language in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
- Myth and Intersections of Myth and Gender in Canadian Culture: Margaret Atwood’s Revision of the Odyssey in The Penelopiad
- The Heroic Programme of Sherlock
- Freud by Numbers? – Hysteria and Transgenerational Haunting in Patrick McGrath’s Constance (2013)
- Reading Strategies and Impossible Worlds in Fiction: With Reference to Lincoln in the Bardo
- Book Reviews
- Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
- Creating Realities: Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
- Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
- Books Received
- Books Received