The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective.

Shirley Zisser practices Lacanian psychoanalysis in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is a Full Professor and former Chair of English at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy, Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (with Efrat Biberman), and Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Of Unconscious Grammatology (both Routledge).

1 Rhetoric 2 Euphues 3 Orpheus