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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... romantic ego , the protagonist of this book . The expansiveness of the ego , not Beckett's despairing mood , was strongly in evidence in the late 1960s and in the years that followed . Lionel Trilling provided the following memorable ...
... of which one's character is made . Behind this " romantic " attitude is the cult of the artist . Faute de mieux , the artist is the bearer of the spiritual life , and the sometimes disorderly appearance of his 4 INTRODUCTION.
... romantic desires , that concentration of ecstasy and violence which is the dream - life of the nation , " 14 as if this dream - life somehow yielded a morality . * And Jean Genet , taking an aesthetic delight in the energies of perver ...
... romantic theism of the Savoyard Vicar — in Emile . ) There is hardly an attitude or feeling in Rousseau that is not tied in some way to his Calvinism . His famous celebration of conscience in the voice of the Savoyard Vicar is the ...
... romantic cult of sincerity ( the writer speaking to himself ) is a kind of myth that sustains the writer in his work without really explaining what he is doing . The irony of Rousseau's performance is that his confes- sions expose him ...
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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 |