Date of Award

12-1-2023

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of English

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Kir Kuiken

Committee Members

Paul Stasi, Helen Elam

Keywords

Being, Impersonality, Monologue, Self, Subjectivity

Subject Categories

English Language and Literature

Abstract

This dissertation approaches metaphysical isolation and the delineation of the subjective self in Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy and The Unnamable. Each monologue, whether in novels or poetry, discussed herein illustrates a process of isolating, of bracketing, losing the world in order to regain it, erasing the self in order to find it. To address these renditions of subjectivity, they are considered in relation to T.S. Eliot’s concept of Impersonality, as well as Existential and Phenomenological models of the subject.

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