UID:
almahu_9949386029502882
Format:
1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN:
9781003007920
,
1003007929
,
9781000763294
,
1000763293
,
9781000763010
,
1000763013
,
9781000763157
,
1000763153
Series Statement:
Literary criticism and cultural theory
Content:
"The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions, forms, and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions, Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently, it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other, identity and difference, philosophy and literature, theory and praxis"--
Note:
Introduction -- Chapter One: The Double That Takes My Breath Away -- Chapter Two: The Shadow's Gaze -- Chapter Three: The Double's Lesson of Love -- Chapter Four: Islands of Doubles -- Epilogue: "It's Not Me, It's You": From the Personal to the Collective Double
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367441449
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367441446
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003007920
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003007920
