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Author Clark, Matthew, 1948-

Title Narrative structures and the language of the self / Matthew Clark
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description vii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Series Theory and interpretation of narrative
Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Contents Introduction : the self and narrative -- The reflexive self : Descartes and Ovid -- The furniture of the self : Montaigne, Highsmith, Dostoevsky -- The dyadic subject : Hegel, Aristophanes, Hemingway -- Doubles and doubled doubles : Knowles and Austen -- Freudian thirds : Heinlein, Stevenson, Forster, Wharton -- Introduction to part two : deep subjectivity -- Agents, patients, and experiencers : le Carré, Weldon, Kesey, Woolf -- Dative subjects : Stevenson, Fitzgerald, Kesey, Robbe-Grillet -- Instrumental subjects : Knowles, Eliot, Davies -- Locative subjects : Mahfouz, Lem, Forster -- Conclusion : narrative and the self : Hartley, Sartre, Ishiguro
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Self in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Subject (Philosophy) in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LC no. 2010023781
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