Doubles Studies in Literary History

Name: Doubles Studies in Literary History
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ISBN: 9780198128410

ISBN-10: 019812841X

ISBN-13: 9780198128410

Edition: 1985

Authors: Karl Miller

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This book examines a literary tradition that stretches from antiquity to last week's best-seller list: the alter ego, the second self, of doppelganger--the imagination of two (or more) selves in one. Miller studies literary masterpieces and real-life cases and argues that literature itself is a duality, that is the double who writes the novels and has been implicated from the first in the cultivation of uncertainty that distinguishes moden literature. Opening with an account of one of the tradition's leading text, James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Miller goes on to treat the equivocal language of Romanticism, the orphan delirium of the Gothic heritage, the themes of isolation,…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/18/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.694
Language: English