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Klappentext This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time! as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'. Zusammenfassung This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time! as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'. Our contributors set forth its urgency in a variety of contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Frontispiece; Editor's introduction: purloined letters: searching for the self; Part I. Representations of the Self: 1. Representations of the self, singular and collective, from Kleist to Ernst Jünger J. P. Stern; 2. Not I Michael Edwards; 3. The commerce of the self Peter France; 4. From persona to the split subject Raman Selden; 5. Unlocking the diary Roger Cardinal; 6. René Girard and the revisionist view of narcissism, with illustrations Stephen Bann; 7. Tangled hierarchies: self-reference in philosophy, anthropology and critical theory Jean-Pierre Dupuy; 8. Persona and generic conventions in medieval Persian lyric, with illustration Julie Scott Meisami; 9. Representations of the self: a phenomenological approach to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir David James; Part II. Literature and Translation: 10. 'Writing (to) One's Self': a selection of Strindberg's letters August Strindberg; Translated and with an introduction 'Strindberg the letter-writer' Michael Robinson; 11. 'The Graveyard by the Sea' Paul Valéry; Translated Alistair Elliot; 'Palm Tree' and other poems, translated James Greene; 12. 'Portrait of the Yellow Apricot Tree': a short story Norman Manea; Translated from the Romanian with an introduction note and 'Selected writings' Rosalind Belben; 13. On fathers, wet-nurses, and wars; 'The Poet and the Angel', from Croquis dans les ténèbres, a prose poem Stefan Themerson; Translated Barbara Wright; Introduction Nicholas Wadley; Illustrations Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson; Part III. 14. Power dressing: on Greenblatt's Shakespearean Negotiations A. D. Nuttall; 15. Hölderlin's wager on transcendence: a review of S. Corngold, The Fate of the Self and D. Constantine, Hölderlin Mark Ogden; 16. The Chinese presence in Europe: a review of Etiemble, L'Europe chinoise I and II Gregory Blue; Part IV. Bibliographies: 17. Books and periodicals received Mark Ogden; 18. Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1987 Joseph Th. Leerssen; 19. Special bibliography: 'Bibliography is my biography, the rest is irrelevant': A bibliography of Stefan Themerson Joseph Th. Leerssen...
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This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time, as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'.
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List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Frontispiece; Editor's introduction: purloined letters: searching for the self; Part I. Representations of the Self: 1. Representations of the self, singular and collective, from Kleist to Ernst Jünger J. P. Stern; 2. Not I Michael Edwards; 3. The commerce of the self Peter France; 4. From persona to the split subject Raman Selden; 5. Unlocking the diary Roger Cardinal; 6. René Girard and the revisionist view of narcissism, with illustrations Stephen Bann; 7. Tangled hierarchies: self-reference in philosophy, anthropology and critical theory Jean-Pierre Dupuy; 8. Persona and generic conventions in medieval Persian lyric, with illustration Julie Scott Meisami; 9. Representations of the self: a phenomenological approach to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir David James; Part II. Literature and Translation: 10. 'Writing (to) One's Self': a selection of Strindberg's letters August Strindberg; Translated and with an introduction 'Strindberg the letter-writer' Michael Robinson; 11. 'The Graveyard by the Sea' Paul Valéry; Translated Alistair Elliot; 'Palm Tree' and other poems, translated James Greene; 12. 'Portrait of the Yellow Apricot Tree': a short story Norman Manea; Translated from the Romanian with an introduction note and 'Selected writings' Rosalind Belben; 13. On fathers, wet-nurses, and wars; 'The Poet and the Angel', from Croquis dans les ténèbres, a prose poem Stefan Themerson; Translated Barbara Wright; Introduction Nicholas Wadley; Illustrations Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson; Part III. 14. Power dressing: on Greenblatt's Shakespearean Negotiations A. D. Nuttall; 15. Hölderlin's wager on transcendence: a review of S. Corngold, The Fate of the Self and D. Constantine, Hölderlin Mark Ogden; 16. The Chinese presence in Europe: a review of Etiemble, L'Europe chinoise I and II Gregory Blue; Part IV. Bibliographies: 17. Books and periodicals received Mark Ogden; 18. Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1987 Joseph Th. Leerssen; 19. Special bibliography: 'Bibliography is my biography, the rest is irrelevant': A bibliography of Stefan Themerson Joseph Th. Leerssen