| Description |
viii, 329 pages ; 22 cm |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Death of Kumara Gupta I and -- Accession of Puru Gupta 1-49 -- Chapter IL. -- Skanda Gupta and Kumira Gupta II 50-71 -- Chapter II. -- Budha Gupta 72-79 -- Chapter IV. -- Successors of Budha Gupta 80-129 -- Chapter V. -- The Later Guptas and their Home 130-156 -- Chapter VI. -- History and Chronology of the Later -- Guptas 157-195 -- Chapter VII. -- Magadha under the Imperial Maukharis 196-214 -- Chapter VIII. -- Magadha under the Gaudas--Jayaniga -- and Safka 215-262 -- Magadha under Par.navarman and -- Harsa 263-278 -- Chapter X. -- Magadha under the restored Later -- Guptas 279-322 -- Chapter XI, -- Rise of the PMlas-Achievements of -- Gopila--Date of Gopdla 323-336 -- Chapter XII. -- Dharmnapila 337-367 -- Chapter XIII. -- Devap5la 368-377 -- Chapter XIV. -- Disintegration of the empire after Deva- -- pAla--SirapAla I and Vigrahapdla I- -- Ndrayanapla jyala-Rjyapa-Gopla II- -- Vigrahapala II 378-404 -- Ch,ipter XV. -- Restoration of the Pala Empire under -- Mahipdla I 405-424 |
| Summary |
The author offers a possible point of contact between postmodernists and communitarians, one which has significance for the current multicultural and post-colonialism debates relevant to the analysis of the three writers discussed in the second part of this book: Atwood, Banville, and Coetzee |
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Remembrance and self-reflection are narrative acts in which we create, rather than simply retrieve, our personal pasts and hence our conceptions of who we are. Self as Narrative considers the human capacity to evaluate, modify, and utilize the discursive codes and conventions of a plurality of communal contexts in the creation of meaningful narratives of selfhood. This book represents a genuinely original extension of an important area of theoretical debate and includes relevant applications of the ideas developed to some works of contemporary fiction, arguing for the importance of contemporary fiction as an arena of moral debate. The author emphasizes the intersubjective nature and creative possibilities of communicative praxis, and invites reconsideration of concepts such as authorship, the self, and moral responsibility in the wake of the postmodern 'dissolution of the subject' |
| Notes |
Author is a lecturer in the Dept. of English Language and Literature, Victoria University of Wellington, N.Z |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-321) and index |
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Lady Oracle
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Lady oracle
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
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Banville, John.
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Banville, John. Book of evidence
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Foe
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
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Communalism in literature.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Memory in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Self in literature.
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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| LC no. |
96007772 |
| ISBN |
019818364X (hbk.) |
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