Confronting / Defining the Self: Formation and Dissolution of the 'i' from La Fayette to Grass

by John A. McCarthy

Early 20th-century literary critics Joseph Collins, Hermann Hesse, and Percy Lubbock concluded that the pages of a book present a succession of moments that the reader visualizes and reinterprets. They feared that few would actually commit themselves to memory, and that most were likely to soon disappear. As you turn these pages, you will (re)discover the value of the literary canon through the Self. My objective is to examine how the Self is formed,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004534067
• ISBN13: 9789004534063
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 284 Pages