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Kevin Patrick Finucane
The Contest Between Public Discourse and Authorial Self in Robert Coover’s The Public Burning
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Robert Coover’s Novel, The Public Buming, merges fantasy, history, and popular myth to respond to the American Cold War culture surrounding the trial of Ethal and Julius Rosenberg. While serving as a postmodern response to, and rewrite of, the Cold War ideological narratives, Coover’s novel also raises theoretical and practical questions concerning the author’s agency in the twentieth century. This article makes use of the language theories of Bruce Andrews, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Charles Peirce to consider how Coover’s fiction addresses the conflict between the public and private self, authorial discourse and collective ideological discourse. Coover’s novel reflects on these tensions, foregrounding the erosion of an autonomous concept of self and a Romantic notion of autotelic creation. At the same time, it employs a range of strategies (recovery of alternative voices, dismantling of polarities, rewriting) as a form of resistance against the monologic narratives of the Cold War.Le roman de Robert Coover, The Public Buming, combine I’imaginaire, I’histoire, et le mythe populaire pour repondre ala culture de la guerre froide américaine dans laquelle baigne le procès d’Ethal et de Julius Rosenberg. Bien qu’il serve de reponse aux narrations ideologiques de la guerre froide et de réécriture de celles-ci, le roman de Coover soulève aussi des questions théoriques et pratiques relativement à I’action de I’auteur au vingtième siècle. Le présent article utilise les théories du langage de Bruce Andrews, Mikhail Bakhtin, et Charles Peirce afin d’analyser la façon dont le roman-fiction de Coover aborde le conflit entre le soi public et privé et entre le discours de I’auteur et le discours idéologique collectif. Le roman de Coover médite sur ces tensions en mettant I’accent sur I’erosion du concept autonome de soi et de la notion romantique de création autotélique. À la même occasion, il emploie un éventail de stratégies (recouvrement de contre-voix, démantèlement des polarités, réécriture) en tant que résistances aux narrations monoloqigues de la guerre froide.
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Antonio Calcagno
Alain Finkielkraut:
The Coming Undone of a Thoughtful Culture?
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Hugh Williams
Listening to a Pope in a Secular Age:
Interpreting “Fides et Ratio”
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Prophets and Promises
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Contradiction and Confirmation:
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Montaigne and Nietzsehe:
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In Memoriam Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Selfhood and Politics
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Literary Communism:
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Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and the Alterity of the Other
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The Threat of Panfictionalism
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How Gadamer Changed My Life:
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Gadamer - A Dialectic Without End
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Ignoramus:
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On the Truth of the Word
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Gadamer’s Legacy
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Gadamer and Sartre on Self-Transformation
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Gadamer’s Legacy in Aesthetics and Plato Studies
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