Self-conscious Art: A Tribute to John W. Kronik

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Susan L. Fischer
Bucknell University Press, 1996 - Literary Criticism - 183 pages
Self-conscious art constitutes a significant and previously neglected feature of modern literature and is a crucial concern of contemporary criticism. The essays in this volume consider such questions as the limits of self-consciousness, the creative and circumstantial tensions that produce its various features, the ludic nature of art, the role of interpretation, and the aesthetic, social, and mythic reverberations of self-reflexive art.

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ANDREW P DEBICKI
11
Rewriting Unamuno Rewriting
23
Playing with Unamunian Paper
42
SelfConsciousness in Rosa
54
SelfReflexive Fiction and
73
SelfConscious Narration
90
PageGazing through Subversive
102
Cervantess Poetics
128
From the Transcendental to
151
The Self
170
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