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From text to hypertext : decentering the subject in fiction, film, the visual arts, and electronic media /

It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject - the self - is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the pre-modern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in Fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaggi, Silvio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997.
Colección:Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The subject's eye
  • The tie that binds
  • The keys of power
  • The flattened subject
  • The gendered subject
  • Twinning and cloning the subject
  • 2. The subject of discourse
  • Conrad and the Mise-en-abîme
  • Faulkner's dying "I"
  • Calvino and the traveling subject
  • 3. The moving subject
  • Stunts and other masquerades
  • Coppola's lesson from Las Vegas: One from the heart, The player
  • 4. Hyperrealities and hypertexts
  • The loss of a primary axis
  • Hypertext
  • The author
  • Psychic life redefined
  • Utopia and dystopia
  • Hypertextual narratives
  • Epilogue: after the subject.