TY  - GEN
AU  - FROW, JOHN
Y2  - 2014/05/22
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33610
AB  - This is the text of an inaugural lecture given at the University of Edinburgh on 11 May 2000. In his book on character analysis Wilhelm Reich describes character as a kind of armour, a rigid suit that one bolts on and that its wearer then comes to resemble. It’s a metaphor that Jacques Lacan picks up in a phrase about the ‘blazons of phobia’, that ‘talking arms of character’, and it’s one that seems an apt description of these priestly robes that I’m wearing this afternoon. I can think of them only as a sign of office with which I at once pay my respects to the distinguished line of predecessors in this chair, and defend myself by hiding behind the impersonality of the ‘armorial blazoning’ of position.
N1  - application/pdf
LA  - eng
T1  - Text, culture, rhetoric: some futures for English
IS  - Critical Quarterly
VL  - 43
IS  - 1
SP  - 5-18
L1  - /bitstream/handle/11343/33610/65728_00002209_01_Frow014.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n
ER  -