Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction
Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawre
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Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction
10.1057/9781137076656 - Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction, Brook Miller
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Brook Miller
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Self-Consciousness in Modern British Fiction
SELF- CONSCIOUSNESS IN MODERN BRITISH FICTION
Copyright © Brook Miller, 2013. All rights reserved.
Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–33756–5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Brook. Self-consciousness in modern british fiction / Brook Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–230–33756–5 (alk. paper) 1. English fiction—History and criticism. 2. Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature. 3. Self in literature. I. Title. PR830.S427M55 2013 823.009'353—dc23
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In memory of Helen Calvert Bergman
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Functional Illusions and Modernist Self-Consciousness
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Self-Consciousness, Embodiment, and the Narrativizing Self
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Minding the Gap: Embodiment, Narrativity, and Identification in Under Western Eyes
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Selfhood and the Sensorium in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Removing the Serpent’s Tail from Its Mouth: D. H. Lawrence’s Vision of Embodied Consciousness
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