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'Crypts of Identity: the Refusal of Mourning in "Wuthering Heights"'
Steven Vine
English, Volume: 48, Issue: 192, Pages: 169 - 186
Swansea University Author: Steven Vine
Abstract
The essay examines the ghosts of loss and exclusion in 'Wuthering Heights', and argues that selfhood and the social body in the novel are riven by the phantoms they exclude. Loss and exclusion are inscribed in a dynamics of mourning, for the text's exiled terms inhabit a domain of alt...
| Published in: | English |
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1999
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17981 |
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The essay examines the ghosts of loss and exclusion in 'Wuthering Heights', and argues that selfhood and the social body in the novel are riven by the phantoms they exclude. Loss and exclusion are inscribed in a dynamics of mourning, for the text's exiled terms inhabit a domain of alterity where loss is mourned in an acceptance of deprivation, and at the same time refused in a denial of loss. The argument draws on the work of psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok to show how - at the levels of selfhood, sociality and textuality - 'Wuthering Heights' memorializes an irremediable deprivation whose force becomes ‘encrypted’ in the novel’s phantom effects. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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192 |
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169 |
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186 |