God and self in the confessional novel. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John D. Sykes Jr.
• Authors: Sykes, John, 1952-
• Contents: 1. Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Augustine and Rousseau: Confessio laudis, Confessio peccatorum, and the Nature of the Self 2.1 Augustine: The Rhetoric of Confessio and the Unfinished Self 2.2 Rousseau: The Rhetoric of Justification and the Monadic Self 3. Chapter 3 The Sorrows of Young Werther: Confessions without Confession 3.1 Nature and Confessio laudis 3.2 Guilt and Confessio peccatorum Chapter 4 Notes from Underground: Self-Deception and the Dialogic Self 4.1 Vicious Circles: Recursive Narrative and the Snarling Cry of Freedom 4.2 Loopholes: Self-Deception and Endless Confession 4.3 The Road Not Taken: Faith and Kenotic Love 4.4 Confessio peccatorum and Confessio laudis Redux 5. Chapter 5 Lancelot: Dialogic Consciousness and the Triadic Self 5.1 Alter Ego, Memory, and Self-Definition 5.2 The Unholy Grail, Love, and the Trinitarian Self 6. Chapter 6 Atonement: The Novel's Confessional Limit 6.1 Literary History and the Ethics of Fiction 6.2 Self-Deception and the Author-as-God 7. Chapter 7 Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.39353; Fiction -- History and criticism; Confession in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319913223
• Related ISBNs: 9783319913216
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