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© 1989

The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature

A Study in Self-Fragmentation

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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 1-13
  3. Dissolving Self
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 14-42
  4. Self at War
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 43-73
  5. Fragmentary Self
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 74-107
  6. Self-deception and Self-conflict
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 108-140
  7. Discontinuous Self
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 141-173
  8. Conclusion
    Dennis Brown
    Pages 174-184
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 185-206
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About this book

Introduction

An exploration of how key modern writers challenged conventional ways of characterizing selfhood, thus developing a discourse expressive of the subtleties of experience in a post-Freudian world long before the self-representation theories of the post-structuralists and post-modernists.

Keywords

English English literature fragment literature

Authors and affiliations

  1. 1.Hatfield PolytechnicUK

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