On Not Being Able To Sleep by Jacqueline Rose
In these powerful essays Jacqueline Rose delves into the questions that keep us awake at night, into issues of privacy and publishing, exposure and shame. Do some women writers - Christina Rossetti, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath - have a special talent for self-revelation? Or are they simply more vulnerable to the invasions of biography? Turning to psychoanalysis, Rose explores its affinity with modernism and asks what it can tell us about the limits of knowledge, both about the most intimate and baffling components of experience and about the furthest, hallucinatory, reaches of the mind. These fine studies move deftly between public, political and private, unconscious worlds. Offering new links between feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and politics, On Not Being Able to Sleep provides a resonant and thought provoking collection for the present day.
Rose puts good questions to the human psyche.. in a book about the limits of language, Rose succeeds in showing the fullness and strength of the questions it can be made to ask * Independent on Sunday *
This collection should appeal both to the 'common reader' and those more academically inclined- the writing here is never less than excellent * Scotland on Sunday *
Rose's thought is so subtle and sophisticated * Literary Review *
[Rose] displays wonderful clarity and originality * Daily Telegraph *
This collection should appeal both to the 'common reader' and those more academically inclined- the writing here is never less than excellent * Scotland on Sunday *
Rose's thought is so subtle and sophisticated * Literary Review *
[Rose] displays wonderful clarity and originality * Daily Telegraph *
Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include the highly influential study The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099286042 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099286041 |
| Title | On Not Being Able To Sleep |
| Author | Jacqueline Rose |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2004-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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