Redefining the 'Self': Selected Essays on Swift, Poe, Pinter, and Joyce - Couverture souple

Murray, John

 
9780595193257: Redefining the 'Self': Selected Essays on Swift, Poe, Pinter, and Joyce
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595193250 ISBN 13 : 9780595193257
Editeur : iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

The essays in this volume examine the conflict of self' in society as a leitmotif in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Joyce's Ulysses, and Pinter's The Dwarfs, The Lover, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming.In his analyses, Murray discusses the ideas of behavioral and ideological conformity in Swift's work. He examines Poe's use of the grotesque to suggest correlations between the moral, physical, and spiritual degeneration of the characters, and the natural decay of their environment. Murray examines passages of dialogue from Pinter's dramas and discusses how the characters within the plays use language to create spatial boundaries to secure their identities by making themselves impervious to the language of their social others.' Murray's final essay concentrates on the use of role-playing and misidentification in Joyce's novel.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The essays in this volume examine the conflict of self' in society as a leitmotif in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Joyce's Ulysses, and Pinter's The Dwarfs, The Lover, The Caretaker, and The Homecoming.In his analyses, Murray discusses the ideas of behavioral and ideological conformity in Swift's work. He examines Poe's use of the grotesque to suggest correlations between the moral, physical, and spiritual degeneration of the characters, and the natural decay of their environment. Murray examines passages of dialogue from Pinter's dramas and discusses how the characters within the plays use language to create spatial boundaries to secure their identities by making themselves impervious to the language of their social others.' Murray's final essay concentrates on the use of role-playing and misidentification in Joyce's novel.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Condon Murray received a master's degree in English literature from Harvard University. He studied Anglo-Irish literature in Oxford University. He was a recipient of the Walter D. Head Foundation's Fellowship for International Understanding in 1998. His most recent title is Gulliver's Travels: A Witness Exploration of Humanity in Search of the Answer to the Question Who Am I?'.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595193250
ISBN 13 
9780595193257
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
108
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