Author: Raper, Julius RowanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807141595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Narcissus from Rubble: Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction
Author: Raper, Julius RowanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807141595
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Narcissus from Rubble
Author: Julius Rowan RaperPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807117125
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
"By the mid-195Os, when Saul Bellow published Seize the Day, French existentialism and the phenomenological view of humankind that underlies it had become popular enough in the United States and England for leading novelists to begin dealing critically with its fundamental assumptions. Taking as its starting point the critique of existentialism's phenomenological background derived from Edmund Husserl and elaborated by Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, Julius Rowan Raper's Narcissus from Rubble delves into the intellectual assumptions that lie behind eleven of the most influential and challenging novels created by Bellow, Thomas Pynchon, John Fowles, Jerzy Kosinski, John Barth, and Lawrence Durrell." "Raper sees the central conflict of twentieth-century humanistic inquiry as the modern opposition between psychology and philosophy. He dramatizes the competition in the novels between the phenomenological model of human behavior and a variety of models associated with psychoanalysis, especially those created by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Heinz Kohut. He argues that despite numerous efforts to fuse phenomenology and psychoanalysis, the two conceptions of personality have been fundamentally opposed to each other since Husserl's original description of phenomenology." "The book underscores the irony that while much contemporary literary criticism continues to draw on a phenomenologically based view of character derived in part from the essays of Jacques Lacan, our leading novelists for a quarter century have been warning us in major novels such as Henderson the Rain King, V., and The Magus of the rage, compulsiveness, emptiness, pointlessness, fragmentation, and associated dangers to which taking a phenomenological stance may contribute." "Raper finds that all six novelists worked through the intellectual maze that Freud called narcissism, as well as through the hazards of self-transcendence, to a new understanding of narcissism that is less judgmental and more perceptive than Freud's earlier formulation. It is this struggle--first to comprehend the dangers of the self-transcending tendencies of our culture, and then to become completely true to ourselves beyond the roles imposed on us by life--that creates the drama Raper detects as the common component in the works studied in this book." "Raper's approach offers exciting insights into some fascinating and difficult literary texts. By revealing the common concern on which they rest, he provides the reader with an illuminating way to approach other contemporary works of literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Richard Wright
Author: Keneth KinnamonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786421355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
African-American writer Richard Wright (1908-1960) was celebrated during the early 1940s for his searing autobiography (Black Boy) and fiction (Native Son). By 1947 he felt so unwelcome in his homeland that he exiled himself and his family in Paris. But his writings changed American culture forever, and today they are mainstays of literature and composition classes. He and his works are also the subjects of numerous critical essays and commentaries by contemporary writers. This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging from unpublished dissertations to book-length studies of African American literature and literary criticism. Also included as an appendix are addenda to the author's earlier bibliography covering the years from 1934 through 1982. This is the exhaustive reference for serious students of Richard Wright and his critics.
Lawrence Durrell
Author: Julius Rowan RaperPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826209825
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Lawrence Durrell excelled in a great variety of genres: poetry, drama, travel books, humorous writings, translations, critical essays, philosophical essays, character sketches, and, above all, genre- and culture-transforming experimental novels. In keeping with Durrell's multifaceted career and the centrality of his experiments, the essays in this collection use a variety of literary approaches to the diversity of Durrell's contributions to literature, illuminating four major dimensions of Durrell's writing.
Lack of Character
Author: John M. DorisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521631167
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethical theory challenging foundational conceptions of character.
Twentieth-century Short Story Explication
Author: Towards the Antibildungsroman
Author: Justyna KociatkiewiczPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631575741
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Rev. and edited version of the author's doctoral thesis, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2001.
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000
Author: Brian W. ShafferPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405156163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed
The World Is Our Home
Author: Jeffrey J. FolksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185599
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity. The essays in The World Is Our Home focus on writers who have explicitly addressed social and cultural issues in their fiction and drama, including Dorothy Allison, Horton Foote, Ernest J. Gaines, Jill McCorkle, Walker Percy, Lee Smith, William Styron, Alice Walker, and many others. The contributors provide valuable insights into the transformation of southern culture over the past thirty years and probe the social and cultural divisions that persist. The collection makes an important case for the centrality of social critique in contemporary southern fiction.
Twentieth-century Short Story Explication
Author: Warren S. WalkerPublisher: Hamden, CT : Shoe String Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Contains nearly 32,500 entries that provide a bibliography of interpretations that have appeared since 1900 of short stories published since 1800.