James M Mellard
Biographic Data
| ID | 996138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Mellard |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mellard |
| SIGNATURE | MELLARD J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Families make the best enemies
"Families make the best enemies": Paradoxes of Narcissistic Identification in Toni Morrison's Love James M. Mellard (bio) There are many significant features in the underappreciated Love (2003), Toni Morrison's eighth novel. 1 A feature that both connects it to, and distinguishes it from, each of her previous novels (a ninth, A Mercy, was published in November 2008) is its particular expression of the psychological phenomenon of identification. C…
Inventing Lacanian Psychoanalysis
While Lacan always insisted that he was a Freudian and therefore worked within Freudian Field, his approach to analysis nonetheless differs from Freud's. A primary difference relates to questions of poetics and discourse. Whereas some scholars contend that constructs his discourse of psychoanalysis around archaeology used as a trope, Lacan adverts in his rereading of not to archaeology, but to linguistics. Though linguistic terms are everywhere v…
Fables of Subversion
The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor's Others
ions of human law, authority, Otherness. By resistance old man's narcissistic identification with her, Mary Fortune forces old man look at difference not only between him but also between an individual tree-perhaps tree-and backdrop of sacred, sacramental woods. The are special because of their identification, O'Connor, with figure of Christ. The first paragraph of story speaks of black line of which appeared, Christ-like, to walk across water (C…
The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon
Doing Tropology
Doing Tropology
"The Problem of Knowledge and "The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is widely regarded as an important text exhibiting rupture-both epistemological and ideological-between classical realism and post-realist or modernist age. John Carlos Rowe and Hayden V. White, for example, both regard The Education as crucial to our understanding of transition from a premodernist to a modernist age (Rowe) or (White).' Similarly, Wayne Lesser has commented recently that Adams seems to promise a self-…
The Exploded Form
The Exploded Form
Prolegomena To A Study of the Popular Mode in Narrative
Racism, Formula, and Popular Fiction
Faulkner's Jason and the Tradition of Oral Narrative
Faulkner's Jason and the Tradition of Oral Narrative
Racism, Formula, and Popular Fiction
Prolegomena To A Study of the Popular Mode in Narrative
The Exploded Form
The Exploded Form
"The Problem of Knowledge and "The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is widely regarded as an important text exhibiting rupture-both epistemological and ideological-between classical realism and post-realist or modernist age. John Carlos Rowe and Hayden V. White, for example, both regard The Education as crucial to our understanding of transition from a premodernist to a modernist age (Rowe) or (White).' Similarly, Wayne Lesser has commented recently that Adams seems to promise a self-…
Doing Tropology
Doing Tropology
Flannery O'Connor's Others
ions of human law, authority, Otherness. By resistance old man's narcissistic identification with her, Mary Fortune forces old man look at difference not only between him but also between an individual tree-perhaps tree-and backdrop of sacred, sacramental woods. The are special because of their identification, O'Connor, with figure of Christ. The first paragraph of story speaks of black line of which appeared, Christ-like, to walk across water (C…
The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon
The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor
Fables of Subversion
Inventing Lacanian Psychoanalysis
While Lacan always insisted that he was a Freudian and therefore worked within Freudian Field, his approach to analysis nonetheless differs from Freud's. A primary difference relates to questions of poetics and discourse. Whereas some scholars contend that constructs his discourse of psychoanalysis around archaeology used as a trope, Lacan adverts in his rereading of not to archaeology, but to linguistics. Though linguistic terms are everywhere v…
Families make the best enemies
"Families make the best enemies": Paradoxes of Narcissistic Identification in Toni Morrison's Love James M. Mellard (bio) There are many significant features in the underappreciated Love (2003), Toni Morrison's eighth novel. 1 A feature that both connects it to, and distinguishes it from, each of her previous novels (a ninth, A Mercy, was published in November 2008) is its particular expression of the psychological phenomenon of identification. C…
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