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Representations of the Self

Comparative Criticism, Volume 12 (1990). Edited by E.S. Shaffer.

Part I: Representations of the Self

  • J.P. Stern, Representations of the self, singular and collective, from Kleist to Ernst Jünger
  • Michael Edwards, Not I
  • Peter France, The Commerce of the Self
  • Raman Selden, From Persona to the Split Subject
  • Roger Cardinal, Unlocking the Diary
  • Stephen Bann, René Girard and the revisionist view of Narcissism, with illustrations
  • Pierre Dupuy, Tangled hierarchies: Self-reference in philosophy, anthropology and critical theory
  • Julie Scott Meisami, Persona and Generic Conventions in Medieval Persian Lyric, with illustrations
  • David James, Representations of the Self: A Phenomenological Approach to Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir


Part II: Literature and Translation

  • August Strindberg, 'Writing (to) One's Self': a selection of Strindberg's letters, translated with an introduction by Michael Robinson

  • BCLA Translation Competition Winners
  • Paul Valéry, 'The Graveyard by the Sea', translated by Alistair Elliot; 'Palm Tree' and other poems, translated by James Greene
  • Norman Manea, 'Portrait of the Yellow Apricot Tree': a short story. Translated from the Romanian by Rosalind Belben with an introductory note; and 'Selected writings'.
  • Stefan Themerson, On Fathers, Wet-Nurses, and Wars; 'The Poet and the Angel', from Croquis dans les ténèbres, a prose poem translated by Barbara Wright with an introduction by Nicholas Wadley and with illustrations by Francziska and Stefan Themerson


Part III: Essay Reviews

  • A.D. Nuttall, Power dressing: On Greenblatt's Shakespearian Negotiations
  • Mark Ogden, Hölderlin's wager on transcendence: a review of Stanley Corngold, The Fate of The Self and David Constantine, Hölderlin
  • Gregory Blue, The Chinese presence in Europe: a review of René Etiemble, L'Europe chinois I and II


Bibliographies

  • Books and periodicals received. Compiled by Mark Ogden
  • Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland 1987. Compiled by Joseph Th. Leerssen
  • Special bibliography: 'Bibliography is my biography, the rest is irrelevant': A Bibliography of Stefan Themerson. Compiled with a chronology by Nicholas Wadley


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