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Description of  On Emerging from Hyper-Nation: Saramago s 'Historical' Trilogy (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 62)

155753697X epub On Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousas attempt to answer the question, Why do I smile on reading one of Saramagos historical novels? Why that reaction of emotional release? To answer the smile question the book engages in a critical mode that could be described as discourse analysis. It combines several critical strains and relies on basic concepts from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adlerian psychology, and contemporary cognitive psychology for their discourse-analytical value rather than as entres into psychoanalytical reading per se. The introductory chapter presents some of the concepts that underlie that compound analytical modality and sets out an overview of twentieth-century Portuguese social and economic history. Then, with an eye to answering the smile question, the book reads Nobel Laureate Jos Saramagos three novels, Read more