A Genealogy of the Modern Self : Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing / / Alina Clej
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| Autore: |
Clej Alina
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| Titolo: |
A Genealogy of the Modern Self : Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing / / Alina Clej
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, CA : , : Stanford University Press, , [2020] |
| ©1995 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 828/.809 |
| Soggetto topico: | Authorship - Psychological aspects |
| Modernism (Literature) - England | |
| Self in literature | |
| LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. An Unprecedented Discourse -- 2. How to Publish Oneself -- 3. Prodigality and the Regime of Opium -- 4. Prodigal Narratives -- 5. The Dream Work -- 6. Paideia -- 7. Pseudospiritual Exercises -- 8. Rhetorical Exercises -- 9. Pathos as Technique -- 10. What Shall Be My Character? -- 11. Distance -- 12. "Real" Passion -- 13. The Literature of Power -- 14. The Art of Echoing -- 15. Gothic Confessions: The Rape of the Brain -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As this book's title suggests, its main argument is that Thomas De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important and mostly unacknowledged role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. At the same time, the book shows that intoxication, whether in the strict medical sense or in its less technical meaning ("strong excitement," "trance," "ecstasy"), is central to the ways in which modernity, and literary modernity in particular, functions and defines itself. In both its theoretical and practical implications, intoxication symbolizes and often comes to constitute the condition of the alienated artist in the age of the market. The book also offers new readings of the Confessions and some of De Quincey's posthumous writings, as well as an extended analysis of his relatively neglected diary. The discussion of De Quincey's work also elicits new insights into his relationship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth, as well as his imaginary investment in Coleridge. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Genealogy of the Modern Self |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8076-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154598803321 |
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