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Author:

Clark, Matthew, 1948-

Title:

Narrative structures and the language of the self / Matthew Clark.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

vii, 209 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Self in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Subject (Philosophy) in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative

ISBN:

0814292275 (cd)
9780814292273 (cd)
0814211283 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814211281 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)635467158

LCCN:

2010023781

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)