An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.

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Hatfield Polytechnic, UK

Dennis Brown

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Book Title: The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature
Book Subtitle: A Study in Self-Fragmentation
Authors: Dennis Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19913-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-45742-9Published: 15 May 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19913-6Published: 15 May 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 206
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, North American Literature

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Dissolving Self

Self at War

Fragmentary Self

Self-deception and Self-conflict

Discontinuous Self

Conclusion

Back Matter

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