The essay discusses the relationship between two textual realizations, that of the unreliable narrator, represented in the novel by a man suffering from a schizoid personality disorder, and thet of the so called paranoid reader -- created by modernist New-Criticism and cajoled by several postmodernist writers. Secondarily it discusses the polarities represented by schizoid narrator and paranoid reader as enecting two different kinds of delirium and, finally, to compare the interaction between the two to what takes place between patient and analyst. The aim is also to offer a reading which can be applied to other works by the same author, since they all seem to follow a similar pattern, both structurally and ideologically.
"The Schizoid Narrator and the Paranoid Reader in Patrick McGrath's Spider"
PACINOTTI, LIA
2004-01-01
Abstract
The essay discusses the relationship between two textual realizations, that of the unreliable narrator, represented in the novel by a man suffering from a schizoid personality disorder, and thet of the so called paranoid reader -- created by modernist New-Criticism and cajoled by several postmodernist writers. Secondarily it discusses the polarities represented by schizoid narrator and paranoid reader as enecting two different kinds of delirium and, finally, to compare the interaction between the two to what takes place between patient and analyst. The aim is also to offer a reading which can be applied to other works by the same author, since they all seem to follow a similar pattern, both structurally and ideologically.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
