Pseudo-Memoirs

Pseudo-Memoirs
Title Pseudo-Memoirs PDF eBook
Author Rochelle Tobias
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 240
Release 2021-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1496227603

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Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Łukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot.

Pseudo-Memoirs

Pseudo-Memoirs
Title Pseudo-Memoirs PDF eBook
Author Rochelle Tobias
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 272
Release 2021-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1496227581

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Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Łukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot.

Memoirs of a Book Thief

Memoirs of a Book Thief
Title Memoirs of a Book Thief PDF eBook
Author
Publisher SelfMadeHero
Pages 0
Release 2019-04-30
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 9781910593639

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"First published in French by Futuropolis in 2015"--Copyright page.

Memoirs of a Star

Memoirs of a Star
Title Memoirs of a Star PDF eBook
Author Pola Negri
Publisher
Pages 514
Release 1970
Genre Actors
ISBN

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Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chapulek in Poland, was a singer, stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. Her career on stage began in 1913, but as WWI devastated those venues, she relocated to Germany, to become a star in silent films. American Director Adolph Zukor lured her to Paramount in 1921, for one of her most productive decades. She married glamorously, to Polish Count Eugene Dambski and Georgian Prince Serge Mdivani, but her liaisons were even more fabulous: Charles Chaplin, millionaires Wolfgang George Schleber (German) and Glen Kidston (British), but it was the great Latin lover Rudolph Valentino who won her lasting regard, despite only one year of happiness. This book is her story of her storied life.

The Ascent of the Detective

The Ascent of the Detective
Title The Ascent of the Detective PDF eBook
Author Haia Shpayer-Makov
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 444
Release 2011-09-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0199577404

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Explores the diverse and often arcane world of English police detectives during the formative period of their profession, from 1842 until the First World War, with special emphasis on the famed detective branch established at Scotland Yard.

Early Modern French Autobiography

Early Modern French Autobiography
Title Early Modern French Autobiography PDF eBook
Author Nicolae Alexandru Virastau
Publisher BRILL
Pages 211
Release 2021-04-06
Genre History
ISBN 9004459553

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In this book, Nicolae Alexandru Virastau offers an enlightening account of the origins of one of Europe’s most influential autobiographical traditions.

Harvard Botanical Memoirs

Harvard Botanical Memoirs
Title Harvard Botanical Memoirs PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 100
Release 1903
Genre Botany
ISBN

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