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Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal: Theatrical Fantasy and the Gaze
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 3, September 2016
- pp. 91-108
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a630346
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay draws on Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan to explore the dynamics of fantasy, desire, and enjoyment in Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal, emphasizing the novel’s irreducibility to a postmodernist funhouse.
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