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A Canon of Empty Fathers : Paternity in Portuguese Narrative

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"A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative" is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day.

In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms "empty paternity" - a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.

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0838756875 / 9780838756874
Hardback
01/06/2007
United States
English
224 pages
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