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The play of the double in postmodern American fiction

by Gordon Slethaug

1993 234 pages eng

With the assistance of poststructuralist theories by Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan, The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction evaluates the contemporary role of the doppelganger. The doppelganger or double has been used in Plato's works to explain sexual attraction; in Western fo…

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