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Skeptical Selves

Name: Skeptical Selves
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804724654
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Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel

Autor: Elena Russo

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This work examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representatio...

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Autor

Elena Russo

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1996

Pagini

225

EAN

9780804724654

ISBN

0804724652

Enbook ID

04716339

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

467

Dimensiuni

148 x 225 x 25

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This work examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation. In an innovative move, the author grounds these failures in the narrators' inability to move beyond empiricist notions of correspondence between private, nonverbal experience and public expression, an inability that confines them to various forms of solipsism. Russo contends that such empiricist notions still inform contemporary French novels and criticism. She deftly shows that current forms of linguistic skepticism favoured by Blanchot, Sartre, Barthes, and Derrida are in fact the very product of the empiricist notion of truth these authors claim to have rejected. Instead, she argues for the social and contextual dimension of language and against the illusion of authenticity on which these critics still rely. Her readings recast the debates surrounding postmodernism by placing them in a much needed historical context.