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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... 6 Walt Whitman : Democracy and the Self 133 7 Lawrence and Christ 161 8 Joyce and the Career of the Artist - Hero 183 Notes Bibliography of Books and Essays Cited Index 201 214 221 I have watched the soul , Ferdinand , give way.
... Joyce . The " movement " I describe ends in nihilism . If one wishes to translate this movement into the book's argument , one might say " the seeds of contemporary nihilism are in the failures of these writers to master the chaos of ...
... Joyce and Lawrence are mutually antipathetic , but they are both examples of modern ar- tistic heroism that is itself the product of the cult of the ego . Each writer , while grandly affirming the self , tries not always successfully to ...
... Joyce , Proust , and Mann , but the artist type is present in a wide range of works . Julien Sorel , Werther , and Birkin are characters in whom Stendhal , Goethe , and Lawrence have made large personal investments . The truest ...
... Joyce's Stephen Dedalus , Rilke , and Whitman each in his own way have made powerful and moving claims for art that are un- sustainable . Beckett recoils with an excess comparable to the hubris of the artist hero when he declares his ...
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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 |