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Maurice Gee’s ‘anti-Cartesian meditations’: narcissism and relational trauma in Plumb

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0 Published in 2017 at "Textual Practice"

DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2017.1386708

Abstract: ABSTRACT In playfully positioning Descartes – recast as ‘Des Cartes’ – as ‘a cousin of Les Miserables’ in his best-known novel Plumb (1978), New Zealand writer Maurice Gee demonstrates that what lurks beneath Western culture’s… read more here.

Keywords: plumb; trauma; gee; maurice gee ... See more keywords