Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-34106-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Self-consciousness, Embodiment, and the Narrativising Self Embodiment, Narrativity, and Identification in Under Western Eyes Selfhood and the Sensorium in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Removing the Serpent's Tail from Its Mouth: DH Lawrence's Vision of Embodied Consciousness Narrative Identity, Embodied Consciousness, and The Waves Scriptive Consciousness and Embodied Empathy in The Golden Notebook

Über Autor(innen)

Brook Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. His research is on 19th and 20th-century British literature and he is the author of America in the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature (2010).