Representations of the self
By: edited by E.S. Shaffer.
Contributors: Shaffer, E. S.
Series: Comparative criticism -- 12
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Self in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Representations of the self. Representations of the self, singular and collective, from Kleist to Ernst Jünger / J.P. Stern; title: Not I / Michael Edwards; title: The commerce of the self / Peter France; title: From persona to the split subject / Raman Selden; title: Unlocking the diary / Roger Cardinal; title: René Girard and the revisionist view of narcissism / Stephen Bann; title: Tangled hierarchies : self-reference in philosophy, anthropology and critical theory / Jean-Pierre Dupuy; title: Persona and generic conventions in medieval Persian lyric / Julie Scott Meisami; title: Representations of the self : a phenomenological approach to Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir; title: pt. 2. Literature and translation. Writing (to) one's self : a selection of Strindberg's letters / August Strindberg; title: The graveyard by the sea ; Palm tree and other poems / Paul Valéry; title: Portrait of the yellow apricot tree / Norman Manea; title: On fathers, wet-nurses, and wars ; The poet and the angel / Stephan Themerson; title: pt. 3. Essay reviews; title: Bibliographies.