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The mutilating God : authorship and authority in the narrative of conversion /

Main Author: Peters, Gerald, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects.
Autobiography > Authorship.
Conversion in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Authority in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Narration > Aspect psychologique.
Autobiographie > Art d'écrire.
Conversion dans la littérature.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Autorité dans la littérature.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Modern.
Letterkunde.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Hieroglyphic Phase
  • The Hieratic Phase
  • The Demotic Phase
  • Conversion and the Symbolic Order
  • Authorizing the Self in Joyce's Portrait
  • Freud's "Magic Slate" and Stephen Dedalus's Aesthetic
  • The Mirror of the Text: Rilke's "Other Self"
  • Rilke's God
  • The Vicissitudes of an "Instinct" in the Conversion of Paul
  • Inside the Writing Machine: The Diary of Winston Smith
  • Reforming Desire
  • Unified Self/"Docile Body"
  • Epitome: The Dream of Salvation
  • Epilogue: Kafka's "Nightmare."

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