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Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender
Caroline Rupprecht
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A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. As such, the concept might help us to consider how what we come to know as the other, or the object, is always the result of a process of image-making. It is in this suggestive sense that narcissism interests Caroline Rupprecht in ""Subject to Delusions"". Because ""the other,"" or the object, is constructed, Rupprecht finds in narcissism the possibility of rewriting notions of identity. She then pursues this possibility through modern literary texts in which narcissism acts as a structuring principle - ... Read more
A figure of reflexivity, narcissism describes a relation between self and other mediated through the mirror or reflection. As such, the concept might help us to consider how what we come to know as the other, or the object, is always the result of a process of image-making. It is in this suggestive sense that narcissism interests Caroline Rupprecht in ""Subject to Delusions"". Because ""the other,"" or the object, is constructed, Rupprecht finds in narcissism the possibility of rewriting notions of identity. She then pursues this possibility through modern literary texts in which narcissism acts as a structuring principle - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810122352
SKU
V9780810122352
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About Caroline Rupprecht
Caroline Rupprecht teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College. She is the translator of Dark Spring by Unica Zurn (Exact Change, 2000).
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