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Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and its Imitation in Modern Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative)
Rochelle Tobias (Author)
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University Of Nebraska Press
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Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and its Imitation in Modern Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative) - Rochelle Tobias
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Synopsis "Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and its Imitation in Modern Fiction (Frontiers of Narrative)"
Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Lukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot. Rochelle Tobias is a professor of German at Johns Hopkins University and the director of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought. She is the author of The Discourse of Nature in the Poetry of Paul Celan: The Unnatural World and editor of Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature.
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