Titlebook: Browning and the Fictions of Identity; E. Warwick Slinn Book 1982 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1982 fict

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The Function of Illusion,nic relationship between the reality which is transformed through the formulations of speech and the reality which is created by the transformation. It is not that this ambiguity renders the speaker’s reality a merely distorting illusion; the speaker’s vision is a truth nonetheless, but it is a hist

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The Self as Subject,is consciousness, and to be ‘consciously the subject of a state or condition’ is to imply that the mind or self is a thinking or active participant, though whether it participates as a defined or defining agent is a fundamentally awkward question.

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,‘God a tame confederate’: Irony in ,or . should make changing interpretations of . less surprising. This experimental work, with its hybrid elements of picaresque, stage play and monologue,. and its varied tonal qualities from the opening lyrical splendour to Bluphocks’ cynical doggerel, demands of its reader the same balancing of sym

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The Function of Illusion,they formalise the way men use language as a self-reflexive process. Since to dramatise the self is obviously to manipulate an illusion, the poems inevitably raise questions about the fictional dimension of human experience. Whether in terms of the display of a social pose, the emotional necessities

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Histrionic Action in ,o not merely provide an analogy or model for life, but are also characteristic of its nature. Browning consequently has shifted the focus for the drama metaphor that ‘a(chǎn)ll the world’s a stage’ from external behaviour into internal psychological action. Nowhere is this more clear than in . where we ar

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The Self as Subject,nterpretation of physical data or the value attached to sensation, and above all the sense that something has happened to the self. This is in accord with general understanding of the term, since ‘experience’ is defined in one of its aspects by . as ‘the fact of being consciously the subject of a st