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Condon, Matthew George.

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Mimetic identities: The rupture of the other in self-narratives (Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Philip Roth).

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Title/Author:	Mimetic identities: The rupture of the other in self-narratives (Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Philip Roth)./
Author:	Condon, Matthew George.
Description:	292 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2518.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097095

Mimetic identities: The rupture of the other in self-narratives (Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Philip Roth).
Condon, Matthew George.

Mimetic identities: The rupture of the other in self-narratives (Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Philip Roth). - 292 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2518.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2003.

This dissertation offers a distinctive new approach to narratives of self-fashioning, one that offers a critically rigorous and historically located non-formal reading of the self I call mimetic identity. My argument proceeds through three interrelated trajectories. I argue that approaching self-narratives in terms of genre conventions (such as “autobiography”) vitiates our ability to properly understand those texts. I argue that a better, more productive avenue is to approach such texts in terms of their performative and rhetorical construction of an identity. The final level of argumentation follows from the second: I contend that mimetic identities are produced in view of a particular ethical agenda that is proposed by the narrator to be appropriated by the reader. In short, this dissertation explores how narratives of self-fashioning are produced performatively, rhetorically, and ethically.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Mimetic identities: The rupture of the other in self-narratives (Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, Philip Roth).
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520 $a After inaugurating the conceptual framework of my dissertation, I proceed with a critical evaluation of three texts, Saint Augustine's <italic>Confessiones </italic>, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's <italic>Confessions</italic>, and Philip Roth's <italic>Operation Shylock: A Confession</italic>. In my reading of each text, I explore the position of the narrator's mimetic identity as socio-historical place markers around which narrative, personhood, and ethics occur. I draw on a variety of disciplinary methods (ethical philosophy, narrative theory, theology, cultural studies, aesthetics, and so on) to foster a critical appreciation for both the liberating and constraining possibilities of religion in the literary expression of personhood. To this end, I employ of the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, and Charles Taylor, who address, in various if not always commensurate ways, the intersection of narrative, personhood, and ethics. Such marshaling of a range of both ideas and theories do justice to a way of writing that produces texts that are polymorphous and unstable.
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