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Self-deception in literature and philosophy / Amit Marcus.

Title
Self-deception in literature and philosophy / Amit Marcus.
Author
Marcus, Amit.
Publication
Trier : WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007.

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Description
232 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
ELCH ; Bd. 27
Uniform Title
ELCH ; Bd. 27.
Subject
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Self-deception in literature
Note
  • Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Jerusalem) under the title: Self-Deception of Narrating Characters: from the Subject in Analytical Philosophy to the Homodiegetic Narrator and Back.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Defining self-deception -- Paradoxes of self-deception and their solutions -- Self-deception: questions of authority and evaluation -- The unreliable narrator -- Two versions of the story: Charles Dickens's Great expectations -- Two hypotheses for the narration: Max Frisch's Homo Faber -- The role of narration in the release from self-deception: Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- The self-deceived and the other-deceiving narrating character: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- Albert Camus's La chute: the dynamics of narrative unreliability -- The neutral narration--in search of non-existent certainty: Alain Robbe-Grillet's La jalousie -- An examination of the mutual illumination of philosophy and narratology as regards self-deception.
ISBN
  • 9783884769508 (pbk.)
  • 3884769502 (pbk.)