Understanding Our Selves by Susan Tridgell
Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single person's life and its tendency to delve ever more deeply into that person's inner, private experience, though these tendencies seem to have only increased biography's popularity. To date, however, biography has been a rarely studied literary form. Little serious attention has been given to the light biographies can shed on philosophical problems, such as the intertwining of knowledge and power, or the ways in which we can understand lives, or terms like 'the self'. Should selves be seen as relational or as autonomous? What of the 'lies and silences' of biographies, the ways in which embodiment can be ignored? A study of these problems allows engagement with a range of philosophers and literary theorists, including Roland Barthes, Lorraine Code, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Alasdair MacIntyre, Ray Monk, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ricoeur, Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor. Biography can be a dangerous art, claiming to know 'just how you feel'. This book explores the double-edged nature of biography, looking at what it reveals about both narratives and selves.-
Hear the Tap, Feel the Scratch
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Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini
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'Keeping the Sources Pure'
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Formless
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Surrealism
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Depicting Desire
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European Intertexts
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She's Leaving Home
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Laughter and Power
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Borges and Dante
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Making Sense
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After Intimacy
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Re-reading Pio Baroja and English Literature
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Entre mélancolie et connaissance; Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie
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Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
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Viva Pinter
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Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities
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Readers, Writers, Salonnieres
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Songbirds on the Literary Stage
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Existentialist Comics
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Leonardo Sciascia’s French Authors
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The Pleasure in/of the Text
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Nomadic Literature
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Lingua Barbara or the Mystery of the Other
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Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe L'Ecriture De Soi Dans L'Europe Moderne
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The Epistolary Muse
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The Fausts of Gerard de Nerval
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Voices of Dissent
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Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness
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Symphonie der Worte
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Translators, Interpreters, Mediators
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Writing on the Move
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The Tragic Discourse L'Experience Du Tragique
The Author: Susan Tridgell is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. She has taught at both the Australian National University and the Australian Catholic University and has published articles on biography, nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, ethics and literature, Holocaust biography, philosophical biography and conceptions of the self. Authors of interest have included Bertrand Russell, Emmanuel Levinas, George Eliot and D.H. Lawrence. She received her doctorate in literature from the Australian National University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783039101665 |
| ISBN 10 | 3039101668 |
| Title | Understanding Our Selves |
| Author | Susan Tridgell |
| Series | European Connections |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verlag Peter Lang |
| Year published | 2004-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 234 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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