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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Matthew, 1948-

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self in literature.

Self (Philosophy) in literature.

Subject (Philosophy) in literature.

Subjectivity in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

vii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814211281

0814211283

9780814292273

0814292275

OCLC:

635467158