A genealogy of the modern self : Thomas De Quincey and the intoxication of writing
The author argues that De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity.
XXIV, 348 Seiten : Illustrationen
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Part I. Prodigal Economies: 1. An unprecedented discourse 2. How to publish oneself 3. Prodigality and the regime of opium 4. Prodigal narratives 5. The dreamwork Part II. Sources of a Self: 6. Paideia 7. Pseudospiritual exercises 8. Rhetorical exercises 9. Pathos as technique 10. What shall be my character? Part III. Ontology as Fashion: 11. Distance 12. 'Real' passion 13. The literature of power 14. The art of echoing 15. Gothic confessions: the rape of the brain.
Teilw. zugl.: Diss