The Experimental Self
Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke-Rose
Will be published approx. on 31. January 1997
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-8093-2061-5 (ISBN)
Description
This work sets out to demonstrate that important 20th-century thinkers and novelists, especially Woolf, Pym and Brooke-Rose, perceive and portray the individual as a complex, experimental, dialogic subjectivity.
Reviews / Votes
"The Experimental Self draws on a sophisticated theoretical apparatus without that apparatus ever intruding on the most pleasurable aspect of this text: its lucid readings of the fiction. The book is superbly written, very clearly organized, and always accessible. It uses contemporary critical theory (e.g., Lacan, Barthes, Foucault) with a deftness that is quite unusual and also shows a rich awareness of the body of critical work on each of the writers treated. This is a model of how to write criticism that draws upon theories that are not specifically literary yet have clear implications for our understanding of the act of reading."-Mark Hussey, Pace UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2061-5 (9780809320615)
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Person
Judy Little is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Her other publications include Keats as a Narrative Poet: A Test of Invention and Comedy and the Woman Writer: Woolf, Spark, and Feminism.