Original scientific paper
A Study of Aggression: A Tale of Two Cities
Borislav Knežević
Abstract
Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel interesting for its curious blend of a family story and a troubling historical vision inspired by the Reign of Terror in the French Revolutionary period. This analysis has two main objectives. First, to investigate the manner in which the melodramatic family phantasy as a narrative ideologeme is đealt with in this novel. Secondly, to map the main arguments implied by the noveľs study of the Terror. The emphasis is on the way in which A Tale, prefiguring psychoanalysis, identifies and locates a sociolibidinal dynamic of destructive drives that mark both the melodramatic ideologeme and the politics of Terror.
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121443
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Publication date:
5.12.1991.
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