Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. Gil Bias and Moll Flanders Imitation, Disguise, and Mask -- CHAPTER TWO. Pamela, La Vie de Marianne, and Le Paysan parvenu: Self-Imitation-The Appearance of Reality -- CHAPTER THREE. Tristram Shandy Imitation as Paradox and Joke -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary
To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear'' either as a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly adequate or unified. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index
