Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and LiteratureRanjit Chatterjee, Colin Nicholson |
Contents
Narcissism and the Limits of the Lyric Self | 3 |
The Case | 25 |
For our Selves we are Silent | 37 |
Aspects of Functional | 67 |
A Theoretical Demonstration | 95 |
What do Literary Critics Know about Verse? | 107 |
Making Sense with | 121 |
Fictionmakers in | 163 |
In Vishnuland what Avatar? Sir William Jones | 219 |
Style and Theme in Rasselas | 253 |
William Cowpers | 271 |
Fiction | 297 |
The Arbitrary | 317 |
Appointment by Parable | 347 |
viii | 376 |
The Poets | 193 |
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