The Cult of the Ego: The Self in Modern LiteratureTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 225 Goethe once remarked that "every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control." This remark may be taken as a motto for Eugene Goodheart's study of an aspect of the cultural history of the past two hundred years. In separate chapters on Rousseau, Stendhal, Goethe and Carlyle, Dostoevsky, Whitman, Lawrence, and Joyce, Goodheart discovers a community of concern which he calls the cult of the ego. |
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... Beckett and circles back to him . In between I address the work of some of the greatest writ- ers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from Rousseau to Joyce . The " movement " I describe ends in nihilism . If one wishes to ...
... Beckett's role as representative writer of our modernity . Nihil- ism may be a strain in modern culture , but it is not the only strain . Saul Bellow's affirmations of self come to mind . A single writer or even group of writers cannot ...
... Beckett's work . The hyperbolic presence of Beckett at the beginning and the end of my book is meant to strike a cautionary note . It is the writer who promotes the cult of the ego , and the ego is ultimately the writer's ego . Modern ...
... Beckett recoils with an excess comparable to the hubris of the artist hero when he declares his disillusionment with art and its " puny exploits ... pretending to be able , of doing a little better the same old thing , of going a little ...
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The Aesthetic Morality of Stendhal | 32 |
Goethe Carlyle and The Sorrows of Werther | 57 |
Dostoevsky and the Hubris of the Immoralist | 86 |
Nietzsche and the Aristocracy of Passion | 110 |
Walt Whitman Democracy and the Self | 129 |
Lawrence and Christ | 157 |
Joyce and the Career of the ArtistHero | 179 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography of Books and Essays cited | 210 |
Index | 217 |