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Texts : contemporary cultural texts and critical approaches by Peter Childs Being able to analyse different types of text is an essential skill for students of literature. Texts is a new kind of book which shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural and media texts of the kind studied on today's courses. These texts rangefrom short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites and lyrics to films such as The Matrix and Harry Potter and from television's Big Brother to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, from established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticism, trauma theory, and ethical criticism. Eachchapter also indicates alternative ways of reading the text by drawing on other critical approaches.
ISBN: 9780748620449
Publication Date: 2006-09-01

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Desire, gender, power, language : a psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' Interprets Shelley's 'Frankenstein' in terms of a framework derived from Lacanian psychoanalysis, focusing on the text itself. Discusses the interrelated aspects of language, gender, desire and power as manifested. Highlights some unexplored aspects of the text which may be useful in situating the text within the larger current discourse concerning issues of language and power.
A psychoanalytical interpretation of the characters in A.C. Jordan's novel Ingqumbo yeminyanya A psychoanalytical interpretation of the characters in A.C. Jordan's novel Ingqumbo yeminyanya Psychoanalysis is a way of treating certain nervous disorders of the mind by examining all the ways that sufferers can be helped to remember their past life, dreams, et cetera. This is an effort to find hidden forgotten anxieties or desires influencing one's behaviour without one's knowledge thereof. The aim of this article is to make a detailed interpretation of the characters Zwelinzima and Thembeka / Nobantu in A.C. Jordan's novel, ''Ingqumbo yeminyanya'', so as ''to uncover the hidden causes of the neurosis in order to relieve the character of his or her conflicts, thus dissolving the distressing symptoms'' (Gräbe, 1986). This article will look at the behaviour of the different characters in Jordan's novel. Psychoanalysis is rooted in the idea that humans have unconscious longings that must be analysed in order to understand behaviour. The accent of the article will fall on how psychoanalysis can help the reader, critic or analyst to penetrate the inner workings of the minds of the characters.
The conditionality of status: experience-based reflections on the insider/outsider issue When a researcher undertakes research into his/her own ethnic group, issues of positionality abound. These issues relate not only to the impact of inherent insider positionality when interacting with study participants but also in the interpretation and presentation of study findings. My research with contemporary Irish immigrants not only reinforced the advantages of being an insider but also highlighted the incomplete and unstable nature of insiderness. Heterogeneity within the study group, in terms of their geo-political, regional and religious origins, meant that presumptions of insiderness and outsiderness were frequently challenged. A new awareness of the conditionality of each positionality was forged from these experiences.
A psychoanalytic exploration of collective trauma among Indigenous Australians and a suggestion for intervention Psychoanalysis is used to explore the effects of the annihilation of culture and how this leads to a loss of identification with a collective subjectivity and triggers catastrophic symptoms including loss of collective hope, the rise of addictive and self-destructive behaviours, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma among Indigenous Australian communities.

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