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OverviewA rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between. In Confessions of Narcissus, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, ""It is we who are Hamlet"", he was telling us something about Shakespeare's universality that is worth considering: Hamlet does not just give voice to our own fears and anxieties, he also calls them into being. In the process of trying to find cures for ourselves, that is to say, we become creators, to some extent, of our own misfortunes.Confessions of Narcissus builds from the idea that stories are what we require and also (partly) what we suffer from. In this series of observations and aphorisms about literature and life, Scully makes the case that uncertainty isn't an ailment that we should necessarily try to overcome. Following in the tradition of Keats and others, uncertainty may be something that we have good cause to be more curious about, that uncertainty has artistic merit and is a state of being that we might even come to enjoy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sean ScullyPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press ISBN: 9781628974539ISBN 10: 1628974532 Pages: 98 Publication Date: 04 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSean Scully was born in Houston, Texas. He received his PhD from NUI Galway. He is also a graduate of the University of Saint Andrews and Saint Joseph's University. Sean lives in Galway, Ireland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |