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The European Roman d'Analyse

By Adele Kudish

The European Roman d'Analyse

By Adele Kudish

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Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of "analytical fiction"examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge. Tracing elements of what the French call the roman d'analyse in the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de Navarre, Cervantes, Marie de Lafayette, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and Stendhal, Adele Kudish discusses how the metaphor of unconsummated love is deployed to represent a fundamental lack of insight into the self.
Rather than depicting the mind as transparent, analytical fiction deals in the opacity of the mind. Narrators and characters are faced with deception, misprision, doubt, and confusion, leading to self-deception, jealousy, and crises of self. The European Roman d'Analyse reads such epistemological failures as symptoms of a more fundamental preoccupation with the human psyche as un-chartable and bizarre. In this way, the authors of romans d'analyse enact a larger philosophical project: an anatomy of the psyche wherein we are unable-or unwilling-to know ourselves.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2020-01-23
Publication Date:
2020-01-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501352229
ISBN13:
9781501352225
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[email protected]
Weight:
490 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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