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Claremont Colleges

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

1992

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Nabokov's Third-Person Selves, James Morrison Jan 1992

Nabokov's Third-Person Selves, James Morrison

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Many previous efforts to come to terms with the problem of autonomous consciousness and of self-construction in Nabokov's work have done so in the sphere of psychoanalysis, and have therefore found it necessary to make a foray into Nabokov's tireless polemic against the school of thought. Perhaps, however, an examination of what may be called "the third-person self" provides a way of apprehending Nabokov's conception and representations of consciousness in such a way that a detour through that well-travelled territory may be avoided.


Deleuze And Film Semiotics, James Morrison Jan 1992

Deleuze And Film Semiotics, James Morrison

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

On first reflection, none of the usual categories seem to apply to Gilles Deleuze's work in film theory. In fact, Deleuze's texts appear willfully to frustrate the expected set of questions: What is the relation of Deleuze's texts to film theory? What is their relation to semiotics, to the taxonomy and methodology of semiotics as it has been rehearsed by post-structuralist film theoreticians?