The Fiction of Relationship.

""A clear and straightforward discussion of the ways in which literatures and their comparative study must depend upon the problematics of interpersonal and other relations. ... This study will prove as useful as it is wide-ranging, and indeed, comparative in the good sense.""--M...

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Main Author: Weinstein, Arnold
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface ; Introduction; Chapter One. The Fiction of Relationship: Coupling in Manon Lessent, Werther, Madame Bonary, The Good Soldier, To the Lighthouse, and L'Ecton des jours; Chapter Two. Memory and Multiplicity: The ""Inner Self"" in Defoe, Proust, and Rubbe-Grillet; Chapter Three. Body Control: The Erotic Project in Les Luisona dangereures and Naked Lunch ; Chapter Four. Metamorphosis: Kafka's Machine, Melville's Good Captain, and Faullkner's Fiction of Empathy; Chapter Five. Heaven and Hell: The Parameters of Self in Borges and Strindberg.
  • Chapter Six. Art and Seeing Clear: ""Revelations"" in Sophocles, Ibsen, Proast, Joyce, and CalvinoConclusion; Works Consulted; Index.