Essays on the modern identity / edited by William D. Brewer and Carole J. Lambert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brewer, William D. (William Dean)

Lambert, Carole J.

Series:

Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 55.

Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; vol. 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Self in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2000]

Contents:

Early Modern Self-Understanding

1. Self and Other in Rousseau: Love, Equality and Equity in a World of Flux / Mira Morgenstern 25

2. Rousseau's Beautiful Soul: A Hegelian Reading / Ronnie Littlejohn 59

3. Goya and the Duchess of Alba: A Pictorial Confession Revealed / Ann Glenn Crowe 83

4. The Romantic Subject and the Betrayals of the Text / Anthony John Harding 97

5. The De-Gendered Self in William Blake's Poetry / Marjean D. Purinton 115

Modern Identity in a Postmodern World

6. The Postmodern Self: "Decentered," "Shattered," "Autonomous," or What? A Study of Theoretical Texts by Deleuze and Guattari, Glass, Kohut, and Meyers / Carole J. Lambert 141

7. Discourse, Home, and Travel: The Place of the Self in Modern Travel Writing / Sally M. Silk 165

8. Lest We Not Forget: Memory in Semprun's The Long Voyage / Howard Giskin 181

9. Piracquo's Missing Finger, Or, The Utility of the Liberal Arts / Dan Latimer 197

10. The Making of the Postmodern Minimal Self: Rousseau and the Denial of Dialogical Politics / Kent Brudney 219

11. Rousseau and Communitarian Individualism in "Late Modern" America: The Interpretation of Benjamin Barber / W. Jay Reedy 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0820449008

OCLC:

42753264