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Subjectivity
- Title
- Subjectivity / Ruth Robbins.
- Author
- Robbins, Ruth, 1965-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR408.S83 R63 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 216 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Ruth Robbins examines the diverse factors which shape the self in language. Through readings of autobiographical texts written during the last three centuries, she argues for a concept of subjectivity that takes account of the material world in which selves come into being.
- Series Statement
- Transitions
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- Transitions (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-213) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : who do you think you are? -- 1. Pamela, Rousseau and Equiano : trousseaux, confessions and tall tales -- 2. Two romantic egos : Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium eater -- 3. Victorian individualisms and their limitations -- 4. James Joyce and self-portraiture -- 5. In prison and in chains : Oscar Wilde's De profundis and Brian Keenan's An evil cradling -- 6. Talking properly : class acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett -- 7. China women : Jung Chang's Wild swans and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- 8. Death sentences : the sense of an ending? : living with dying in narratives of terminal illness.
- ISBN
- 0333752783
- 9780333752784
- 0333752791
- 9780333752791
- LCCN
- 2005042965
- 9780333752784
- 9780333752791
- OCLC
- ocm57475928
- 57475928
- SCSB-14533527
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library