Fashioning of the Self in the Historicisation of the Subject: The Foucauldian Legacy in Stephen Greenblatt's Work Revisited.

Michel Foucault's influence on Stephen Greenblatt is a subject that has apparently gone out of date. Paul Stevens argues that Greenblatt's attempt to fashion the self through narration is influenced by Sartrcan existentialism. An examination of Greenblatt's work, however, will demonstrate that it is...

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Publicado en:Colloquy: Text Theory Critique no. 40; pp. 19 - 39
Autor principal: Zhu Wang
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Publicado: Monash University, Faculty of Arts 2021
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        Historicism
        Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
        Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-
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