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In contemporary societies privatization has long ceased to be just an economic concept; rather, it must increasingly be made to refer to the ongoing shrinking of the public space under the impact of the representation of individual lives and images, which cuts across all discourses, genres and media to become one of the primary means of production of culture. This volume is intended to cover such an historical, social and intellectual ground, where self-representation comes to the fore. Targeting mostly an academic readership but certainly also of interest to the general educated public, it collects a wide range of essays dealing with diverse modes of life writing and portraying from a variety of perspectives and focusing on different historical periods and media. It thus offers itself as a major contribution to a better understanding of the world we live in: its past legacy and present configuration.

Self in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Identity in literature --- Themes, motives.

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In early modern lyric poetry, the male poet or lover often appears not as powerful and masterly but rather as broken, abject, and feminine. Catherine Bates examines the cultural and literary strategies behind this representation and uncovers radically alternative models of masculinity in the lyric tradition of the Renaissance. Focusing on Sidney, Ralegh, Shakespeare, and Donne, she offers astute readings of a wide range of texts - a sonnet sequence, a blazon, an elegy, a complaint, and an epistle. She shows how existing critical approaches have too much invested in the figure of the authoritative male writer to be able to do justice to the truly radical nature of these alternative masculinities. Taking direction from psychoanalytic theories of gender formation, Bates develops critical strategies that make it possible to understand and appreciate what is genuinely revolutionary about these texts and about the English Renaissance lyric tradition at large.

English poetry --- Masculinity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Identity in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Identité dans la littérature --- Altérité dans la littérature --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,

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Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientation and ontological destabilization can be found not only in the state of anomie and self-destructive patterns of behaviour that now characterize the lives of indigenous Australian and Maori peoples, but also in the perpetually faltering identity-discourse and cultural rootlessness of the present descendants of the countries’ Anglo-Celtic settlers. It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.

Australasian literature --- Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. --- Alienation (Philosophy) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Australasian literature. --- Identity in literature --- History and criticism. --- Australian literature --- New Zealand literature

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African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- American literature --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Literature and history --- Race in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Intellectual life --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History