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Narcissus From Rubble : Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction
author
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Raper, Julius Rowan.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807117129
print isbn13
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9780807117125
ebook isbn13
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9780585318417
language
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English
subject
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Characters and characteristics in literature, Narcissism in literature, Self in literature.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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PS374.C43R37 1992eb
ddc
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823/.9109384
subject
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American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, English fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Characters and characteristics in literature, Narcissism in literature, Self in literature.
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Narcissus from Rubble
Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction
Julius Rowan Raper
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Copyright 1992 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing
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Designer: Rebecca Lemna Typeface: Galliard Typesetter: Graphic Composition, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:
Raper, Julius Rowan, 1938 Narcissus from rubble: competing models of character in contemporary British and American fiction / Julius Rowan Raper. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-1712-9 (alk. paper) 1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Characters and characteristics in literature. 4. Narcissism in literature. 5. Self in literature. I. Title. PS374.C43R37 1992 823'.9109384dc20 91-32604 CIP
The author is grateful to the editors of the following journals for permission to use material from his previously published articles that have appeared under these titles: "Running Contrary Ways: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day," Southern Humanities Review, X (Spring, 1976), 15768; "John Fowles: The Psychological Complexity of The Magus," American Imago, XLV (Spring, 1988), 6184; "John Barth's Chimera: Men and Women Under the Myth," Southern Literary Journal, XXII (Fall, 1989), 1731; "The Philosopher's Stone and Lawrence Durrell's Psychological Vision in Monsieur and Livia,'' Twentieth Century Literature, XXXVI (Winter, 1991), 41933.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committe on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Thanks to the large-spirited: family, students, friends
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Bearings
N: And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus... this is the key to it all. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
S: We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. Traditional wisdom
W: And if the Wise Man's Stone were found, The stone would lack the wise man still. Goethe, Faust, II, 506364 Charles E. Passage translation
E: The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching Stephen Mitchell translation
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Contents
Preface The Transcenders
xi
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction The Pull of Proteus
1
I The Limits of Change: Saul Bellow's Seize the Day and Henderson the Rain King
12
II Between Sartre and Freud: Thomas Pynchon's V.
37
III Reclaiming the Core: John Fowles's The Magus
60
IV The Chameleon and the Narcissists: Jerzy Kosinski's Being There
85
V Men and Women Under the Myth: John Barth's Chimera
103
VI The New Philosopher's Stone: Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet
127
Conclusion Narcissus Ascending
145
Bibliography
155
Index
161
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Preface The Transcenders
When we look for predecessors of protagonists in contemporary fiction, we may go back to a young man who, when told to kill his uncle the king, hesitated. Or we may turn to a whaling captain who elected to say no to the sailing master of a universe that horribly scarred and maimed him. We may even look back to Prometheus, who defied the ruler of the gods on behalf of the lowly race of men, or to Achilleus, who passionately refused to act as his king required. Moving closer to our own era, we may think of any number of black men, named and unnamed, who rejected the roles society thrust on them: a runaway slave who called a white boy "Trash"; a musician who elected to become an Ex-Colored Man; a chauffeur who refused to accept his identity from a racist society, from his millionaire employers, or from his Marxist lawyer.
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