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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... existence of Byron . He replies as follows to Eckermann's doubts about Byron " There I must contradict you . Byron's boldness , audacity and grandeur , are they not formative in themselves ? We must beware of seeking for that quality ...
... existence of the self as a given . In retrospect , it becomes clear that postmodern writ- ers are heirs to the collapsing and disintegrating ego that Beckett and his nouveau roman followers ( Robbe - Grillet et al . ) describe— but with ...
... 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 which therefore cannot go down in the ledger of weal ...
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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 |