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Hardcover Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel Book

ISBN: 0804724652

ISBN13: 9780804724654

Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel

This book examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representation. In an innovative move, the author grounds these failures in the narrators' inability to move beyond Empiricist notions of correspondence between private, nonverbal experience and public expression, an inability that confines them to various forms of solipsism. Russo contends that such Empiricist notions still inform contemporary French novels...

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