{"product_id":"9780838639214","title":"Death-Ego and the Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis","description":"Approaching the genre of romance from Freudian and Lacanian perspectives, Reisner (an online instructor for the Jerusalem College for Women) applies the notion of the self as the desiring self to readings of such novels as \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e (a \"failed\" romance), \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSons and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e. He finds romance to be characterized competition between the death-drive and the life-drive. If the death-drive triumphs, as in \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, the romance is fulfilled. If the converse, the romance is over. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR  ","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027096846576,"sku":"9780838639214","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780838639214","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}