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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!

Street, Nathaniel B.

<p>My work explores the intricacies of Richard Rorty's theory of the self as it arises out his philosophy of language and then puts that theory into dialogue with the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's …

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“I’ll Be Your Mirror” : The Appropriation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Philosophy of Self-Construction in Seneca’s Oedipus

MacDonald, Theodore2014

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The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens

Haughton-Shaw, ElizaUniversity of Cambridge2021

… as a stylistic signature, in the work of four writers between the mid-eighteenth and later nineteenth century: Laurence Sterne, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, and Charles Dickens. It takes off from the eccentric as a figure who the reader perceives as damaged or hurt in some way, yet …

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