A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative

By Phillip Rothwell

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 continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838756875
• ISBN13: 9780838756874
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"