A Canon of Empty Fathers

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A Canon of Empty Fathers is written by Phillip Rothwell and published by Bucknell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838756875 (ISBN 10) and 9780838756874 (ISBN 13).

A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative is the first book-length study that analyzes the repeated and peculiar deployment of the father figure in Portuguese narratives from the nineteenth century to the present day. In it, Phillip Rothwell argues for a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms empty paternity - a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has surfaced continuously in Portuguese culture from the fifteenth century onward.