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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... attempts to infer the author's biography from the career of his protagonist are travesties of the principle of aesthetic autonomy . We may agree that the conflation of author and character reflects a vulgar reading of literature , but ...
... attempt of a Beckett character to conceive of a mode of existence alternative to the life - in - death in which he lives is baffled . Mulloy confesses that " death is a condition I have never been able to conceive to my satisfaction and ...
... attempt to present its values as normative . Thus Genet , and others , have tried to convert homosexuality from a clinical fact into heroism or saintliness . From the point of view of contemporary immoralism , all forms of opposition ...
... attempted to palliate the blackness of my offence . But I should not fulfill the object of this book , if I did not at the same time set forth my inner feelings and hesitated to excuse myself by what is strictly true . Wicked intent was ...
... attempts to gain our sympathy by distracting our attention from his actions to his sentiments and motives . For all of Rousseau's apparent and real candor , the confessions are motivated by a desire to sustain his self - esteem at all ...
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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 |