Introduction : the self and narrative -- The reflexive self : Descartes and Ovid -- The furniture of the self : Montaigne, Highsmith, Dostoevsky -- The dyadic subject : Hegel, Aristophanes, Hemingway -- Doubles and doubled doubles : Knowles and Austen -- Freudian thirds : Heinlein, Stevenson, Forster, Wharton -- Deep subjectivity -- Agents, patients, and experiencers : le Carre, Weldon, Kesey, Woolf -- Dative subjects : Stevenson, Fitzgerald, Kesey, Robbe-Grillet -- Instrumental subjects : Knowles, Eliot, Davies -- Locative subjects : Mahfouz, Lem, Forster -- Conclusion : narrative and the self: Hartley, Sartre, Ishiguro. |