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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... Prentice- Hall in 1966. The translations of Baudelaire's poems are taken from Angel Flores ' Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery , published by Doubleday . Contents Introduction to the Transaction Edition Prefatory Note ix ...
... but the fact of expression itself . The classic expression of this myth is the poetry of Walt Whitman , who endows each of his multitudinous subjects with the grace Introduction to the Transaction Edition xiii Prefatory Note.
... poetic imagination . It is a tribute to the power of his imagi- nation that while we read and experience his poems ... poetry as we do if it weren't for the powerful hold it has in our culture . But Whitman's achievement is sui generis ...
... 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.
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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 |