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Confessions of Narcissus

Confessions of Narcissus

Scully, Sean

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Series: Dalkey Archive Scholarly

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

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ISBN10: 1628974532
ISBN13: 9781628974539
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Published: Mar 21 2023
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between.

In Confessions of Narcissus, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, It is we who are Hamlet, he was telling us something about Shakespeare's universality that is worth considering: Hamlet does not just give voice to our own fears and anxieties, he also calls them into being. In the process of trying to find cures for ourselves, that is to say, we become creators, to some extent, of our own misfortunes. Confessions of Narcissus builds from the idea that stories are what we require and also (partly) what we suffer from.

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