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The Devil's art: The empty confessio...

Gobble, MaryAnne Mulligan.

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The Devil's art: The empty confession and the aesthetics of evil (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, Algeria, Walker Percy).

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正題名/作者:	The Devil's art: The empty confession and the aesthetics of evil (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, Algeria, Walker Percy)./
作者:	Gobble, MaryAnne Mulligan.
面頁冊數:	172 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1355.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3129714
ISBN:	0496769726

The Devil's art: The empty confession and the aesthetics of evil (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, Algeria, Walker Percy).
Gobble, MaryAnne Mulligan.

The Devil's art: The empty confession and the aesthetics of evil (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, Algeria, Walker Percy). - 172 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1355.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.

Confession is a narrative mode invested with particular cultural weight and freighted with a set of assumptions that are rarely explicitly stated, primary among these an expectation of sincerity in the confessant. The presumed transparency of the speaker implies that the narrative he generates is also transparent, a natural expression of guilt devoid of artifice or aesthetic strategy. This study examines a set of nineteenth- and twentieth-century first-person narratives that defy these assumptions; these confessants use the confessional form neither to ask for absolution nor to acknowledge their own sinfulness, but to express a remorseless will to self. In place of the transparent sincerity that is the hallmark of confession, these protagonists deploy a range of aesthetic and rhetorical strategies designed to protect the autonomy of their self-design, thereby distorting the confessional form.

ISBN: 0496769726Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, Comparative.

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