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Stories and portraits of the self /

In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buescu, Helena Carvalhão, Duarte, João Ferreira, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 115.
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  • Stories and Portraits of the Self; Contents; Introduction: Signposts of the Self in Modernity; Part I The Representational Dilemma; The Self as a Work of Art: Proust's Scepticism; (Re- )Constructing, (Re- )Membering Postcolonial Selves; 'Doing Identity' in Fiction: Identity Construction as a Dialogue between Individuals and Cultural Narratives; Self-Representation and Temporality: 'Parabasis' in Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas; New Man: Marie Kessels' Inner Portrait of a Writing Self; Good Intentions, Ethical Commitment, and Impersonal Poetry: The Work of Gerrit Kouwenaar.