Dorfman, Eran,
Double trouble : the doppelgänger from romanticism to postmodernism / Eran Dorfman. - 1 online resource (pages cm.). - Literary criticism and cultural theory .
Introduction -- Chapter One: The Double That Takes My Breath Away -- Chapter Two: The Shadow's Gaze -- Chapter Three: The Double's Lesson of Love -- Chapter Four: Islands of Doubles -- Epilogue: "It's Not Me, It's You": From the Personal to the Collective Double
"The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions, forms, and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions, Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently, it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other, identity and difference, philosophy and literature, theory and praxis"--
9781003007920 1003007929 9781000763294 1000763293 9781000763010 1000763013 9781000763157 1000763153
Doppelgängers.
Doubles in literature.
Split self in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Difference (Philosophy)
Identity (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
PN56.D67 / D6775 2020eb
809/.927
Double trouble : the doppelgänger from romanticism to postmodernism / Eran Dorfman. - 1 online resource (pages cm.). - Literary criticism and cultural theory .
Introduction -- Chapter One: The Double That Takes My Breath Away -- Chapter Two: The Shadow's Gaze -- Chapter Three: The Double's Lesson of Love -- Chapter Four: Islands of Doubles -- Epilogue: "It's Not Me, It's You": From the Personal to the Collective Double
"The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has significant influence on our lives. It is an inherent key element of human subjectivity whose functions, forms, and effects have not yet gained the serious consideration they merit. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, and combining a personal story with theoretical interventions, Double Trouble develops a novel understanding of the double and human subjectivity in the last two centuries. It begins with the singular and narcissistic double of Romanticism and gradually moves to the multiple doubles implicated by postmodernism. The double is what defies unicity and opens up the subject to multiplicity. Consequently, it gradually emerges as a bridge between the I and the Other, identity and difference, philosophy and literature, theory and praxis"--
9781003007920 1003007929 9781000763294 1000763293 9781000763010 1000763013 9781000763157 1000763153
Doppelgängers.
Doubles in literature.
Split self in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Difference (Philosophy)
Identity (Psychology)
Psychoanalysis and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
PN56.D67 / D6775 2020eb
809/.927