Self-deception in literature and philosophy
By: Amit Marcus
Series: ELCH -- Bd. 27
Publisher: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783884769508
Subjects: Self-deception in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Jerusalem) under the title: Self-Deception of Narrating Characters: from the Subject in Analytical Philosophy to the Homodiegetic Narrator and Back.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining self-deception; title: Paradoxes of self-deception and their solutions; title: Self-deception: questions of authority and evaluation; title: The unreliable narrator; title: Two versions of the story: Charles Dickens's Great expectations; title: Two hypotheses for the narration: Max Frisch's Homo Faber; title: The role of narration in the release from self-deception: Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day; title: The self-deceived and the other-deceiving narrating character: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; title: Albert Camus's La chute: the dynamics of narrative unreliability; title: The neutral narration; title: in search of non-existent certainty: Alain Robbe-Grillet's La jalousie; title: An examination of the mutual illumination of philosophy and narratology as regards self-deception.