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"Montaigne's phrase, Moi qui me voy, concerns a problem that many writers must face: the discovery that somewhere between the intention and the act of writing, the author has to deal with the question of the self, a seductive and tiresome voice clamoring to be heard. This book presents twelve essays on poetry, prose fiction, the essai, and other forms of discourse from the Renaissance to the 20th century that examine this problem, a problem that has a crucial bearing on the continuing debate about autobiography and the author-text relationship. Together, the essays emphasize the rich French tradition of introspective writing, as exemplified by Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, Hugo, Flaubert, Sartre, Camus, Frenaud, and Leiris."""

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Author:   George Craig ,  Margaret M. McGowan
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780198151531

ISBN 10:   0198151535
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 November 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

"Montaigne - the self discovered, Margaret McGowan; Pascal et le ""moi haissable"", Jean Mesnard; Rousseau, Adam Smith and the education of the self, Peter France; Hugo - the triumph of self?, George Craig; self-effacement and self-expression in Flaubert, Brian Nicholas; echo and self-knowledge, Gabriel Josipovici; Rilke - surviving the self, Anthony Thorlby; Proust's narrative selves, Malcolm Bowie; self-image and self-disclosure in Sartre's autobiographical writings, S.Beynon John; Andre Frenaud - the quest for self, Roger Little; perspectives on the self in Camus' ""L'Exile et le royaume"", Rosemarie Jones; the autobiographer astray - Leiris and ""La regle du jeu"", John Sturrock."

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