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Skeptical selves : empiricism and modernity in the French novel / Elena Russo.

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This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation. In an innovative move, the author grounds these failures in the narrators' inability to move beyond Empiricist notions of correspondence between private, nonverbal experience and public expres...

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Main Author: Russo, Elena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Prévost, > abbé, > 1697-1763. > Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.
Constant, Benjamin, > 1767-1830. > Adolphe.
Des Forêts, Louis-René. > Bavard.
French fiction > History and criticism.
Semiotics and literature > France.
Modernism (Literature) > France.
Skepticism in literature.
Self in literature.
Adolphe (Constant, Benjamin)
Histoire d'une Grecque moderne (Prévost, abbé)
French fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
Semiotics and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PQ631 .R87 1996
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