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Aloneness, loneliness, isolation, the isola¬ted consciousness, the many possible guises of outsider-status, alienation, and exclusion - these have especial potency in New Zealand life and literature. The pro¬minence of the motif or topos of the man or woman alone has been widely recog¬nized by literary historians and critics, but this work is the first book-length explora¬tion of it, extended to encompass the broader theme of isolation. This s...

Loving Subjects examines the intersections between female desire and the dynamics of narrative with a view to identifying the scope for the representation of an autonomous female subjectivity capable of signifying its desire for the other. This book surveys and interrogates the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Lacan, the poststructuralist feminist theories of Kristeva and Irigaray, and the theories of lesbian desire propounded by De Lauret...