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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... experiences are that of the writer . The / of the narrator is rarely entirely fictional . This is particularly true of works in which the hero is an artist . The classic modern in- stances are in the work of Joyce , Proust , and Mann ...
... experience his poems we share his belief in the myth . In speaking of myth , I intend no facile dispar- agement of it . We would not respond to Whitman's poetry as we do if it weren't for the powerful hold it has in our culture . But ...
... experiences , after the filthy transi- tion from 1830 to 1848 , and the abominable one from 1848 to the present , shocks many of us . And we , like Byron , do not know what to do with ourselves , where to lay our heads . " Like the ...
... experiences every moment as an impossible effort to go on . " If I could learn something by heart , I'd be saved . " 8 But he cannot . So he is compelled to say " the same thing , and each time it's an effort , the seconds must be all ...
... experience seems often innocent of its tradition — perhaps unavoidably so since it depends upon a sense of its own novelty and freshness and a knowledge of that tradition might inhibit its impulse . It is true , however , that ...
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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 |