As my title suggests, this both is and is not a single-author study. It is to the extent that it is about Ring Lardner; it is not to the extent that it is about the Other. The Ring Lardner book, which acts as a kind of methodological persona or mask, is about one Lardner short story, “Who Dealt?” (part I), Lardner’s life and work in broader perspective (part II), and Lardner’s readers in their cultural context (part III). The Other book, which wears or shapes the Lardner mask, is about the ways in which fictional characters, authors, and readers (including you and me) are “spoken” by various Others: authoritarian and rebellious; parental and childish; majoritarian and minoritarian; “esemphonic” and “asymphonic.” The Ring Lardner book is a critical study of a minor American author who was popular in the twenties; the Other book is a theoretical exploration of what Fredric Jameson has called the “political unconscious,” of our ideological entrapment in and various escape routes out of the double bind, the prison bars forged by society within our bodies. [download]
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