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- catalog abstract "This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation. In an innovative move, the author grounds these failures in the narrators' inability to move beyond Empiricist notions of correspondence between private, nonverbal experience and public expression, an inability that confines them to various forms of solipsism. Russo contends that such Empiricist notions still inform contemporary French novels and criticism. She deftly shows that current forms of linguistic skepticism favored by Blanchot, Sartre, Barthes, and Derrida are in fact the very product of the Empiricist notion of truth these authors claim to have rejected. Instead, she argues for the social and contextual dimension of language and against the illusion of authenticity on which these critics still rely. Her readings recast the debates surrounding postmodernism by placing them in a much-needed historical context. Through a series of lively close readings of Prevost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne, Constant's Adolphe, and Des Forets's Le Bavard, Russo establishes the continuous legacy of Empiricism across three centuries. Prevost pins his narrator's interpretive difficulties on an inability to know and categorize Oriental reality, Constant grounds his critique of language on the same ethical and political principles that underlie his liberalism, while Des Forets's extreme solipsism pitches him against the Sartrean notion of engagement.".
- catalog contributor b8241757.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-219) and index.".
- catalog description "On some necessary preconceptions -- Knowing the authentic object: Histoire d'une Grecque moderne -- Knowing the authentic subject: Adolphe -- Language without objects, language without subjects: Le bavard -- Peirce's alternative to linguistic idealism.".
- catalog description "This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation. In an innovative move, the author grounds these failures in the narrators' inability to move beyond Empiricist notions of correspondence between private, nonverbal experience and public expression, an inability that confines them to various forms of solipsism. Russo contends that such Empiricist notions still inform contemporary French novels and criticism. She deftly shows that current forms of linguistic skepticism favored by Blanchot, Sartre, Barthes, and Derrida are in fact the very product of the Empiricist notion of truth these authors claim to have rejected. Instead, she argues for the social and contextual dimension of language and against the illusion of authenticity on which these critics still rely. Her readings recast the debates surrounding postmodernism by placing them in a much-needed historical context.".
- catalog description "Through a series of lively close readings of Prevost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne, Constant's Adolphe, and Des Forets's Le Bavard, Russo establishes the continuous legacy of Empiricism across three centuries. Prevost pins his narrator's interpretive difficulties on an inability to know and categorize Oriental reality, Constant grounds his critique of language on the same ethical and political principles that underlie his liberalism, while Des Forets's extreme solipsism pitches him against the Sartrean notion of engagement.".
- catalog extent "225 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Skeptical selves.".
- catalog identifier "0804724652 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Skeptical selves.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Skeptical selves.".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "843.009/384 20".
- catalog subject "Constant, Benjamin, 1767-1830. Adolphe.".
- catalog subject "Des Forêts, Louis-René. Bavard.".
- catalog subject "French fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) France.".
- catalog subject "PQ631 .R87 1995".
- catalog subject "Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763. Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog subject "Semiotics and literature France.".
- catalog subject "Semiotics and literature.".
- catalog subject "Skepticism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "On some necessary preconceptions -- Knowing the authentic object: Histoire d'une Grecque moderne -- Knowing the authentic subject: Adolphe -- Language without objects, language without subjects: Le bavard -- Peirce's alternative to linguistic idealism.".
- catalog title "Skeptical selves : empiricism and modernity in the French novel / Elena Russo.".
- catalog type "text".