Descartes' doubting daughters : the care of the self in the fiction of Atwood, Laurence, and Munro

This dissertation looks at the way the Cartesian mind/body problem is implicated in the practices surrounding the care of the self as foregrounded in the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro. Two arguments are offered in the theoretical discussion of the notions of both &qu...

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Main Author: Shojania, Moti Gharib
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/7375