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The Search For Selfhood In Modern Literature
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Book Synopsis The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature by : M. Roston
Download or read book The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature written by M. Roston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific achievements of the modern world failed to impress the leading writers of this century, leaving them instead profoundly disturbed by a sense of lost values and of the insignificance of the individual in a universe seemingly indifferent to human concerns. In The Search for Selfhood in Modern Literature Roston explores the strategies adopted by such mid-century authors as Greene, Salinger, Osborne, Baldwin and others in their attempt to cope with the spiritual vacuity - strategies including the emergence of the anti-hero and of literary existentialism - and offer in the course of the investigation fascinatingly new insights into their work.
Book Synopsis Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood by : Rosie MacLachlan
Download or read book Nina Bouraoui, Autofiction and the Search for Selfhood written by Rosie MacLachlan and published by Studies in Contemporary Women¿s Writing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Nina Bouraoui persistently explores the question of self-expression in her work. This study of Bouraoui's work examines how self-referential writing can represent a crucial act of resistance to a number of contemporary problems, including race, gender and social isolation.
Book Synopsis Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South by : Anne C. Rose
Download or read book Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South written by Anne C. Rose and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and
Book Synopsis Selfhood and Recognition by : Anita C. Galuschek
Download or read book Selfhood and Recognition written by Anita C. Galuschek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other. Touching on humanity as porous, fractal, dividual, and relational, the author sheds new light on the nature of selfhood, recognition, relationality, and human life.
Book Synopsis Transforming the Rebel Self: Quest Patterns in Fiction by William Styron, Flannery O'Connor and Bobbie Ann Mason by : Sharon Therese Nemeth
Download or read book Transforming the Rebel Self: Quest Patterns in Fiction by William Styron, Flannery O'Connor and Bobbie Ann Mason written by Sharon Therese Nemeth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as the author's dissertation.
Book Synopsis Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures by : L. Besserman
Download or read book Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures written by L. Besserman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.
Book Synopsis The Other Self by : Dēmētrēs Tziovas
Download or read book The Other Self written by Dēmētrēs Tziovas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at eight specific novels and at exile narratives as a group, Tziovas (modern Greek studies, U. of Birmingham) traces the transformation of Greek culture from community-based to individual- based, and the impact that change has had on recent Greek fiction. Being postmodern, his readings emphasize relativity and subjectivity, and reject rigid totalities and grand narratives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Book Synopsis Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England by : Alanna Skuse
Download or read book Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England written by Alanna Skuse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.
Book Synopsis The Anti-Hero in the American Novel by : D. Simmons
Download or read book The Anti-Hero in the American Novel written by D. Simmons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.
Book Synopsis Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern by : E. S. Shaffer
Download or read book Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern written by E. S. Shaffer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media.
Book Synopsis The Self-Help Compulsion by : Beth Blum
Download or read book The Self-Help Compulsion written by Beth Blum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers’ rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert’s mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby’s cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf’s ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry’s tendency to popularize, quote, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today’s university. Offering a new history of self-help’s origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help’s most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read.
Book Synopsis Studies in Literature in English by : Mohit K. Ray
Download or read book Studies in Literature in English written by Mohit K. Ray and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Thirteenth Volume Of Studies In Literature In English Contains Seventeen Well-Researched Essays Covering A Wide Range Of Authors And Subjects Across Space And Time. Starting With The Good Old Shakespeare, The Essays Cover A Number Of British Canonical Authors, Including Coleridge, Shelley And Golding. Across The Atlantic Eminent American Authors Like Henry James, Arthur Miller And Saul Bellow Are Given Fresh Look. Rohinton Mistry From Canada, Hermann Hesse, A German Nobel Laureate, And Bertolt Brecht Of Epic Theatre Fame From Germany, V.S. Naipaul, The Nobel Laureate Originally From India, And Pirandello, The Italian Nobel Laureate, Are All Treated With Fine Critical Insight.It Is Hoped That Students, Scholars And General Readers Of English Literature Will Find This Anthology Both Useful And Enjoyable Even More Than The Earlier Volumes Of Studies In Literature In English.
Download or read book Iconotropism written by Ellen Spolsky and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Graham Greene's Narrative Strategies by : M. Roston
Download or read book Graham Greene's Narrative Strategies written by M. Roston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Narrative Strategies Roston focuses upon the Greene's texts themselves and their manipulation of reader response, highlighting the innovative strategies that Greene developed to cope with the mid-century invalidation of the traditional hero. The result is a stimulating new reading of the major novels.
Download or read book Subjectivity written by Ruth Robbins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William Wordsworth's Prelude - Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Oscar Wilde's De Profundis - Jung Chang's Wild Swans Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood, there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying 'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.
Download or read book Longing written by Tamara S. Wagner and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By revealing the origins of common misunderstandings about nostalgia, this book aims, moreover, to show that it creatively fosters a personal and imaginative memory."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Sources of the Self by : Charles Taylor
Download or read book Sources of the Self written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor’s goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
