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Bartlett, Lexey Anne.

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The double redux: Multiplying identity in postmodernist fiction.

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正題名/作者:	The double redux: Multiplying identity in postmodernist fiction./
作者:	Bartlett, Lexey Anne.
面頁冊數:	372 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2202.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
標題:	Literature, African. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3179114
ISBN:	9780542190209

The double redux: Multiplying identity in postmodernist fiction.
Bartlett, Lexey Anne.

The double redux: Multiplying identity in postmodernist fiction. - 372 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2202.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Arlington, 2005.

This dissertation focuses on the multiplicity of identity in twentieth-century world literature as a solution to the questions aesthetic philosopher Dick Higgins asks: "Which world is this? What is to be done in it? Which of my selves is to do it?" Brian McHale argues in Postmodernist Fiction that characters create alternative worlds in order to solve these ontological problems; this study contends that characters also create multiplicitous identities in order to solve their ontological problems, to do what needs to be done. The project arises from an archaeology of the double that follows the emotion evoked by the double in other characters and readers. While in Romantic and nineteenth-century literature featuring doubles the keynote is terror---philosophical, moral, or psychological---postmodernist fiction reveals a remarkable lack of anxiety over the multiplication of identity. In fact, characters explore a variety of ways of multiplying their identities consciously and unconsciously in order to do what they need to live. This dissertation examines the sources, motivations, and modes of multiplied identities in texts by Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Auster, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Vladimir Nabokov.

ISBN: 9780542190209Subjects--Topical Terms:

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