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The critical intention of this article is to examine 'storytelling and/or the inhabiting of cultural masterplots as sites at which characters (and finally, inevitably, the author himself) are faced with the challenge of seeking or escaping authentic selfhood or existential good faith, in the Sartrean sense' (276).
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'Lies and Silences' : Cultural Masterplots and Existential Authenticity in Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang
Subjects:
- True History of the Kelly Gang 2000 single work novel
- Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel
- The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith 1994 single work novel
- Bliss 1981 single work novel
- Illywhacker 1985 single work novel
- Jack Maggs 1997 single work novel
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