Download or read book Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from Dostoyevsky to Lacan written by M. Axelrod and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.