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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... poetic imagination . It is a tribute to the power of his imagi- nation that while we read and 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 ...
... poet and a genius , was conscious forty years ago , now , after a succession of new 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 ...
... is an analogue for this kind of demand in romantic theory about literature . In Coleridge's words , the reader is to suspend his disbelief and enter sympathetically into the alien consciousness of the poet . Perhaps the 24 CHAPTER ONE.
The Self in Modern Literature. into the alien consciousness of the poet . Perhaps the analogue is clearest in the ... poets made for kings and princes . Oedipus , Hamlet , Lear : no one denies their right to be heard . They are the ...
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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 |