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Confessions of Narcissus

Engelsk Paperback
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Confessions of Narcissus

Engelsk Paperback

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A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between. 

In Confessions of Narcissus, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, "It is we who are Hamlet", he was telling us something about Shakespeare’s universality that is worth considering: Hamlet does not just give voice to our own fears and anxieties, he also calls them into being. In the process of trying to find cures for ourselves, that is to say, we become creators, to some extent, of our own misfortunes. Confessions of Narcissus builds from the idea that stories are what we require and also (partly) what we suffer from. 

In this series of observations and aphorisms about literature and life, Scully makes the case that uncertainty isn''t an ailment that we should necessarily try to overcome. Following in the tradition of Keats and others, uncertainty may be something that we have good cause to be more curious about, that uncertainty has artistic merit and is a state of being that we might even come to enjoy.


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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781628974539
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1628974532
Udg. Dato:
4 maj 2023
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
Dalkey Archive Press
Oplagsdato:
4 maj 2023
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