Event overview
Catherine Humble (Goldsmiths PhD student) presents her paper, titled "From The Classical Detective to The Noir Hero: a Lacanian reading".
A psychoanalytical reading of Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage and Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep, comparing the subjectivity of the classical detective with the noir hero. The paper will consider the subject’s relationship with language and meaning, arguing that the classical detective organises gaps in meaning into a definite narrative, whereas the noir hero seeks to dwell in the unknown; in Freudian terms, his ego is ‘unhoused’ by his id.
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Please note the later start time:
This session will start at 7pm - we are trying to experiment to make GLITS more flexible for those who work outside of Goldsmiths.
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GLITS is English and Comparative Literature's seminar forum for its postgraduate students, but interested parties from all disciplines are both welcome and encouraged to attend.
www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ecl/glits.php
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Feb 2009 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
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