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Secret Selves - A History of Our Inner Space (Hardcover)
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Secret Selves - A History of Our Inner Space (Hardcover)
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Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work,
Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural
exploration of our inner selves - and how we have created and
written about them - from the Old Testament to social media. What
he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self - what
we feel makes us distinctively 'us' - seems a natural and permanent
part of being human, it is in fact surprisingly new. Whilst
confessional religious writings, from Augustine to Jane Austen, or
even diaries of 20th-century Holocaust victims, have explored
inwards as part of a path to self-discovery, our inner space has
expanded beyond any possible personal experience. This development
has enhanced our capacity not merely to write about what we have
never seen, but even to create fantasies and impossible fictions
around them. Yet our secret selves can also be a source of terror.
The fringes of our inner worlds are often porous, ill-defined and
susceptible to frightening forms of external control. Mystics and
poets, from Dante to John Henry Newman or Gerard Manley Hopkins,
sought God in their secret spaces not least because they feared the
'abyss beneath.' From the origin of human consciousness through
modern history and into the future, Secret Selves uses literature
to consider the profound possibilities and ramifications of our
evolving ideas of self.
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