Assembling a postmodern identity : subjectivity and agency in a selection of fiction by Jeanette Winterson and Paul Auster

This thesis investigates how two contemporary postmodem novelists, in addition to a number ofpostmodem theorists, challenge the debilitating poststructuralist approach to identity without reverting to an essentialist, Enlightenment depiction of individual autonomy and absolutes. Through distinctive,...

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Main Author: Hegarty, Emma Jane
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2008
Subjects:
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485069