Perry Meisel

A Critic's Archive

9/10/17

Books

Course in General Linguistics . Trans. Wade Baskin. Co-ed. with Haun Saussy. By Ferdinand de Saussure. New York: Columbia Universit...

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The Feudal Unconscious: Capitalism and the Family Romance

by Perry Meisel Psychoanalysis is not only a science of the individual; it is also a historical science. Well beyond Freud’s fam...

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Imitation Modernism: An Interview with Perry Meisel

Imitation Modernism: An Interview with Perry Meisel by Katie Da Cunha Lewin Perry Meisel is a professor of English at New York Univer...

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Perry Meisel: Perry Meisel, Professor of English at New York University for over forty years until his retirement in 2016, has written on literature, music, psychoanalysis, theory, and culture since the early Seventies. His articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, October, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other publications. His books include The Myth of Popular Culture, The Literary Freud, The Cowboy and the Dandy, The Myth of the Modern, The Absent Father, and Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed. He is co-editor, with Haun Saussy, of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, and co-editor, with Walter Kendrick, of Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-25. He is also editor of Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays. He received his B.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale. Any content that appears on this site is written by and copyright Perry Meisel. Do not attempt to redistribute or publish otherwise without consent.

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