Author: Daniel DefoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Due preparations for the plague...The king of the pirates
Author: Daniel DefoeThe life ?and? strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
Author: Daniel DefoeThe Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner
Author: Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe ...: The life & strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel DefoeLife & strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner
Author: Daniel DefoeÜbersicht über die im Jahre ... auf dem Gebiete der englischen Philologie erschienenen Bücher, Schriften und Aufsätze
Author: Daniel Defoe
Author: Robert James MerrettPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442646101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness. Examining more than ninety of Defoe's works, Merrett contends that this author's literariness exploits a conscious dialogue that fosters the reciprocity of traditional and progressive authorial procedures. Along the way, he discusses Defoe's lexical and semantic sensibility, his rhetorical and aesthetic theories, his contrarian theology, and more. Merrett proposes that Defoe's contrarian outlook celebrates a view of consciousness that acknowledges the brain's bipartite structure, and in so doing illustrates how cognitive science may be applied to further explorations of narrative art.
The Open Shelf
Author: Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Daniel Defoe and the Representation of Personal Identity
Author: Christopher BorsingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317247620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The concept of a personal identity was a contentious issue in the early eighteenth century. John Locke’s philosophical discussion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding fostered a public debate upon the status of an immortal Christian soul. This book argues that Defoe, like many of this age, had religious difficulties with Locke’s empiricist analysis of human identity. In particular, it examines how Defoe explores competitive individualism as a social threat while also demonstrating the literary and psychological fiction of any concept of a separated, lone identity. This foreshadows Michel Foucault’s assertion that the idea of man is ‘a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge’. The monograph’s engagement with Defoe’s destabilization of any definition or image of personal identity across a wide range of genres – including satire, political propaganda, history, conduct literature, travel narrative, spiritual autobiography, piracy and history, economic and scientific literature, rogue biography, scandalous and secret history, dystopian documentary, science fiction and apparition narrative - is an important and original contribution to the literary and cultural understanding of the early eighteenth century as it interrogates and challenges modern presumptions of individual identity.