Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on Fatherhood |
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... create himself , give birth to himself , engender and so father himself in language . The narrator who creates himself in the process of writing is the " autobiographer . " If language gives birth , language about the self gives birth ...
... create himself , give birth to himself , engender and so father himself in language . The narrator who creates himself in the process of writing is the " autobiographer . " If language gives birth , language about the self gives birth ...
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... creates his remarkable genealogy of daughters . In the line of family portraits , the same daugh- terly face repeats itself , never changing or growing old . She , the same , appears a representational copy of herself from one ...
... creates his remarkable genealogy of daughters . In the line of family portraits , the same daugh- terly face repeats itself , never changing or growing old . She , the same , appears a representational copy of herself from one ...
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... creates a community in which all members of the group - typically father , daughter , and lover - participate in this perfected love . Little Nell creates this community in heaven ; Esther and Lucie create it on earth . When I use the ...
... creates a community in which all members of the group - typically father , daughter , and lover - participate in this perfected love . Little Nell creates this community in heaven ; Esther and Lucie create it on earth . When I use the ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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