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Prague summer

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.61301
Date January 1992
CreatorsJohnson, Gillian K. (Gillian Kristin)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Arts (Department of English.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 001315092, proquestno: AAIMM80301, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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