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Pierson, Patricia Ann.

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Secret agents: Identity, detection, and the question of narrative authority.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Secret agents: Identity, detection, and the question of narrative authority./
Author:	Pierson, Patricia Ann.
Description:	181 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2923.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3185468
ISBN:	9780542269059

Secret agents: Identity, detection, and the question of narrative authority.
Pierson, Patricia Ann.

Secret agents: Identity, detection, and the question of narrative authority. - 181 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2923.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2005.

My study begins with an examination of the narrative techniques common to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic case histories and Edgar Allan Poe's early detective stories. Both authors share a concern for the capacity of narrative to fashion human identity, and both develop a language for conveying and constructing identity through storytelling. Through a discussion of Freud's case histories that deal primarily with reported patient profiles, I conclude that Freud's case histories are in fact a subgenre of life writing. Poe's Dupin trilogy inaugurates a method of viewing identity through the gaze of the detective and is thus an example of biography.

ISBN: 9780542269059Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Secret agents: Identity, detection, and the question of narrative authority.
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520 $a Borrowing from Freud and Poe's poetics of identity, I analyze three works of fiction---F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and A. S. Byatt's The Biographer's Tale---in terms of narrative self-fashioning. Gatsby calls attention to the dilemma of self-fashioning inherent in any claim to narrative authority, while Nabokov's text hybridizes his own historical turning away from his identity as a Russian novelist. These texts effect an undeath of the author, revising Barthes's theory. This is a melancholic undeath because the shadow of the author falls upon the narrator's ego. The author here is lost object and melancholic encryption within the code of the narratives. He can never die because he is always present, yet he can never be mourned because he is frozen in a narrative death-in-life.
520 $a Byatt's work problematizes recent theories of life writing in the humanities, and calls for what I claim is a cross-disciplinary and cross-generic mode of representing the self, eliding the divide between nonfiction and fiction. The text bears a family resemblance to the work of assemblage artists Michael C. McMillen and Gregor Schneider. As a collection of objects and a taxonomy of the known world, The Biographer's Tale demonstrates the kinship between narratives of identity and the museum, and I therefore view it as a cabinet of wonder. Similarly, McMillen's Central Meridian and Schneider's Totes Haus ur are rooms that tell the life stories of their absent occupants, narrating identity through use of telling objects.
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