Concetta Principe teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Trent University, Durham, Canada. Her current scholarship centers on representations of madness in literature, and how that articulates social traumas. Her monograph, Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s Real: A Lacanian Approach (2015) argues that the representation of the messiah in secular culture is symptomatic of a first century trauma.

• Introduction - Chapter 1 Modernism Vs. Postmodernism - Chapter 2 The Suffering Servant - Chapter 3 Geryon, Resurrected - Chapter 4 Messianic Failures - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index for Mad Speculations

Concetta Principe teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Trent University, Durham, Canada. Her current scholarship centers on representations of madness in literature, and how that articulates social traumas. Her monograph, Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s Real: A Lacanian Approach (2015) argues that the representation of the messiah in secular culture is symptomatic of a first century trauma.

• Introduction - Chapter 1 Modernism Vs. Postmodernism - Chapter 2 The Suffering Servant - Chapter 3 Geryon, Resurrected - Chapter 4 Messianic Failures - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index for Mad Speculations

Concetta Principe teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Trent University, Durham, Canada. Her current scholarship centers on representations of madness in literature, and how that articulates social traumas. Her monograph, Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s Real: A Lacanian Approach (2015) argues that the representation of the messiah in secular culture is symptomatic of a first century trauma.

• Introduction - Chapter 1 Modernism Vs. Postmodernism - Chapter 2 The Suffering Servant - Chapter 3 Geryon, Resurrected - Chapter 4 Messianic Failures - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index for Mad Speculations