What is the Self?: Subjectivity and Narrative Progression in Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker"

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What is the Self?: Subjectivity and Narrative Progression in Richard Powers' "The Echo Maker"

In this paper I take an interest in a question that has been the subject of muchdiscussion across literary and cultural studies as well as in the parallel fields of philosophy, psychology and cognitive science during recent decades. The question is: what is the self? This paper offers a reading of R...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Van Loon, Julienne
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Common Ground 2007
Subjects:	Subjectivity Richard Powers consciousness Narrative Fiction
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11502

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