Unchanging forms of identity in literary expression

Bibliographic Data

ID12417064
AuthorsRobert Ellrodt (corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume7
Issue1
Pages113-126
Publication date1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1062798700003781
OpenAlexW2089161969
LanguageEN
References cited15

The development of self-consciousness and the questioning of identity appear to be closely linked in literary history and theory. The postmodernist assumption that the self is only a heterogeneous cultural construct is unwarranted. Besides inner experience, there is an objective basis for the singularity of the self in biology, psychoanalysis and psychology. The exploration of the modes of consciousness and imagination mirrored in literary creation can bring evidence of structures and correlations unnoticed in personality studies. The presence and permanent nature of individual traits and their characteristic interrelations may be detected in the works of the English Metaphysical poets and John Milton

Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Expression (computer science · Identity (music · Literature · Metaphysics · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophical and Historical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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