A Canon of Empty Fathers

Phillip Rothwell

earliest edition we have, 2007 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2007 229 pages

"A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms "empty paternity" - a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continu...

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A Canon of Empty Fathers paperback · 2007 · Bucknell University Press · 221 pages · 9780838756874
Canon of Empty Fathers edition · 2007 · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated · 229 pages · 9781611482881

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