A Comparative Guide to Sartrean and Deleuzean Selves in Modernist and Post-Modernist Fiction / Onur Ekler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekler, Onur, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Criticism and interpretation.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Self (Philosophy) in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 162 pages).

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2021.

Summary:

This book provides insights into the maze of 'know thyself' through a carefully detailed, comparative study of the Sartrean no-self and the Deleuzean rhizomic self. It is informative, argumentative and rich in literary context, and mainly focuses on the shift in the notion of self from Sartre's elegiac, suicidal and nihilistic tone seen pervasively in modernist fiction to the celebratory, Deleuzean self in postmodernist fiction. To trace this shift, the book presents a comparative analysis of selected novels, showing that authors like Bellow and Atwood have adopted a more positive attitude toward the self similar to the Deleuzean rhizomic self, while authors like Hedayat and Beckett have more reductionist, decadent, nihilistic views on the self, like the Sartrean no-self. Moreover, as argued in the cases of the protagonists in the selected novels, this book further asserts that the Deleuzean rhizomic self might be seen as a possible alternative to help one survive in times of crisis, in contrast to the nihilistic Sartrean no-self.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5275-7230-7

OCLC:

1262371382