| Chapter One introduces the notion of "the other within" as a praxis for meaning other than the rational, thereby exposing the rational as an exclusively phallocentric and therefore closed realm. It is an invitation to read the psycho-libidinal investments of discursive-literary practice following the trajectory of female desire as it circulates in and around a discursive site.;Chapter Three unveils phallomorphism as an operation in the Romance whereby other desire is appropriate(d) to the masculine and the female other is educated into her object-status.;Chapter Four reads Northanger Abbey as a polylogue in which the architectonics of oppression are densely inscribed and repudiated.;Chapter Two explores the anxiety that attends the postulation of female, "other" desire, a bimodal inscription which is particularly accessible in the Gothic and its elements. In The Mysteries of Udolpho, the female subject-postulate is coerced into recovering (her)self as death, absence, and horror within an enigma which attempts to transgress such terrorist closures. |
