Sunday, September 30, 2007

Limits of Individualism

*How Novels Think: the Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900* by Nancy Armstrong

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/archive_asc/C49

This is indeed an intriguing title! I wonder if she gets into identity formation from fictional elements? Oscar Wilde's "life imitates art" can be seen so often.

How much of one's own 'persona', even of how one perceives oneself, has come from fictional elements?

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