Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction [electronic resource] /
Miller, B.author.
Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Functional Illusions and Modernist Self-Consciousness; 1 Self-Consciousness, Embodiment, and the Narrativizing Self; 2 Minding the Gap: Embodiment, Narrativity, and Identification in Under Western Eyes; 3 Selfhood and the Sensorium in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; 4 Removing the Serpent's Tail from Its Mouth: D. H. Lawrence's Vision of Embodied Consciousness; 5 Narrative Identity, Embodied Consciousness, and T he Waves; 6 Scriptive Consciousness and Embodied Empathy in The Golden Notebook
ConclusionNotes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Ethnology.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Cultural Anthropology.