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Egoism in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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Sublime, The, in literature. --- Egoism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Imagination. --- Wordsworth, William, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In this 1991 book, Joel Porte examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of 'rhetorical' reading to historical context, and the nature of 'Romanticism' in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers.

Egotism in literature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- American literature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Romanticism --- United States --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Criticism and interpretation --- Douglass, Frederick --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Melville, Herman --- Whitman, Albery Allson --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Egoism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism.

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In James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, first published in 2001, a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of 'egoism'. This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, 'hospitality', a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to 'the other'. For Rabaté both concepts emerge from the fact that Joyce published crucial texts in the London based review The Egoist and later moved on to forge strong ties with the international Paris avant-garde. Rabaté examines the theoretical debates surrounding these connections, linking Joyce's engagement with Irish politics with the aesthetic aspects of his texts. Through egoism, he shows, Joyce defined a literary sensibility founded on negation; through hospitality, Joyce postulated the creation of a new, utopian readership. Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all Joyceans and scholars of modernism.

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