{"product_id":"confessions-of-narcissus-paperback","title":"Confessions of Narcissus - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean Scully\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConfessions of Narcissus\u003c\/i\u003e, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, \"It is we who are Hamlet\", he was telling us something about Shakespeare's universality that is worth considering: Hamlet does not just give voice to our own fears and anxieties, he also calls them into being. In the process of trying to find cures for ourselves, that is to say, we become creators, to some extent, of our own misfortunes. \u003ci\u003eConfessions of Narcissus\u003c\/i\u003e builds from the idea that stories are what we require and also (partly) what we suffer from. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this series of observations and aphorisms about literature and life, Scully makes the case that uncertainty isn't an ailment that we should necessarily try to overcome. Following in the tradition of Keats and others, uncertainty may be something that we have good cause to be more curious about, that uncertainty has artistic merit and is a state of being that we might even come to enjoy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727492681791,"sku":"9781628974539","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5576733c2866f1fbe2751da1125562d8.webp?v=1765115033","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/confessions-of-narcissus-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}