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Ring Lardner and the Other

Douglas Robinson

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Ring Lardner and the Other is actually two books, mutually embedded. The first is about Ring Lardner: a long reading of a single Lardner short story, Who Dealt?, a briefer look at his life and work, and an exploration of his reception. The second is about the Other, in an expanded Lacanian sense: the speaking of various unconscious voices through literary characters and their authors and readers. The Lardner book explores the contradictions of Lardner's patriarchal masculinity--how such a dour, sexist alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices of women and the lower middle class--and the social functions served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. The other book exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and
Guattari, and others. Robinson's book is an important reappraisal of a critically neglected American writer of the teens and twenties. The book includes an essay by Ellen Gardiner.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: November 26, 1992

ISBN: 0195076001

ISBN 13: 9780195076004

Ring Lardner and the Other

Douglas Robinson

5/5 ( ratings)

Ring Lardner and the Other is actually two books, mutually embedded. The first is about Ring Lardner: a long reading of a single Lardner short story, Who Dealt?, a briefer look at his life and work, and an exploration of his reception. The second is about the Other, in an expanded Lacanian sense: the speaking of various unconscious voices through literary characters and their authors and readers. The Lardner book explores the contradictions of Lardner's patriarchal masculinity--how such a dour, sexist alcoholic who hated humor and bad grammar could have created such a rich body of minoritarian writing, steeped in the emergent voices of women and the lower middle class--and the social functions served by Lardner's writing in twentieth-century America. The other book exfoliates Lacan's germinal concept of the Other by interweaving it with a series of theoretical formulations by Bateson, Deleuze and
Guattari, and others. Robinson's book is an important reappraisal of a critically neglected American writer of the teens and twenties. The book includes an essay by Ellen Gardiner.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: November 26, 1992

ISBN: 0195076001

ISBN 13: 9780195076004

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