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Self-Haunting - by Laura Quinney (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- About the Author: Laura Quinney teaches English and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University.
- 200 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature
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About the Book
A study in the literature of selfhood across time, Self-Haunting analyses how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard, Beckett and Ashbery dramatize the self's struggle to fulfill an ideal of integrity and autonomy that will not let it go. 
 
About the Author
Laura Quinney teaches English and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. She is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery, and William Blake on Self and Soul.