Stories and portraits of the self / edited by Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Joao Ferreira Duarte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buescu, Helena Carvalhão.

Duarte, João Ferreira, 1947-

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 115.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

Literature, Modern--Themes, motives.

Literature, Modern.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it collects a wide range of essays dealing with diverse modes of life writing and portraying from a variety of perspectives and focusing on different historical periods and media. It thus offers itself as a major contribution to a better understanding of the world we live in: its past legacy and present configuration.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Signposts of the Self in Modernity

The Self as a Work of Art: Proust’s Scepticism / Christopher Prendergast

(Re-)Constructing, (Re-)Membering Postcolonial Selves / Paulo de Medeiros

‘Doing Identity’ in Fiction: Identity Construction as a Dialogue between Individuals and Cultural Narratives / Aleksandra Podsiadlik

Self-Representation and Temporality: ‘Parabasis’ in Guimarães Rosa’s Grande Sertão: Veredas / Clara Rowland

New Man: Marie Kessels’ Inner Portrait of a Writing Self / Daniël Rovers

Good Intentions, Ethical Commitment, and Impersonal Poetry: The Work of Gerrit Kouwenaar / Gaston Franssen

‘For-Getting’ Plural Selves: Narrative and Identity in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore / Jan Rupp

The Straitjacket of Normality. The Interaction with the Psychiatrist in Maurits Dekker’s Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben / Lars Bernaerts

The Self’s Struggle for Recognition: August Strindberg and the Other / Lars Dalum Granild

Unshaded Shadows: Performances of Gender in Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge / Marinela Freitas

The Identity Paradigm / Peter Brooks

The Global I / Roland Greene

Staining the Past with Ink in Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Memorie (1830): The Fallacies of Autobiographical ‘Writing’ / Davy Van Oers

Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel García Márquez’s Vivir para contarla / Eli Park Sorensen

The Passion of Lena Christ: From Fictionalized Autobiography to Biographical Novel / Mirjam Truwant

Dreams in the Mirror: George Steiner by George Steiner / Ricardo Gil Soeiro

Reading W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti / Timothy Mathews

The Impossible Self-Portrait / Paula Morão

Between Literature and the Visual Arts: Portraits of the Self in William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Fernando Pessoa / Anna Viola Sborgi

Photography and Shadow-Writing: Henry James’s Revisions of the Self in the New York Edition / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen

Consumed by the Audience. Inhibition, Fear, and Anxiety in the Oeuvre of Bruce Nauman / Patrick Van Rossem

There Was Something about Mary: Mary Pickford’s Perfect ‘Little American’ / Anke Brouwers

Paint it Red: Death Artistry as a Portrait of the Self / Verena-Susanna Nungesser.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0529-9

1-4356-1111-X

OCLC:

191749011

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205290 DOI