The thesis is a short novel, Prague Summer, with a critical afterward. / The novel is an account of Alexandra Adams' journey to Prague the summer after the "Velvet Revolution." Juxtaposed with the narrator's first-person recollections of that time are her meditations about the body, where she explores the degree to which she can rely on her body to speak the truth. Ultimately, the text is both an account of the narrator's idiosyncratic artistic journey and a record of the processes involved in self-transformation. / The required critical afterward is in two parts. The first provides a summary of Richard Rorty's account of language and selfhood. The second considers Proust, Kundera, and Johnson as liberal ironist writers and examines the relationship between the contingency of language and the contingency of self in their texts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61301 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Johnson, Gillian K. (Gillian Kristin) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001315092, proquestno: AAIMM80301, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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