Literature and Philosophy

Telling Tales of Nonsense
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97585-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviours from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.

An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy, comparative literature, world literature, modern fiction, romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castelli, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Recalling Metanarrative: Darwinism in Literature 2. A Love That Kills: The Idiot 3. Philosophical and textual strands of Il Deserto dei Tartari 4. Shades of Love in Love in The Time of Cholera 5. Camus, the absurd Meursault, and Alexandros Panagoulis 6. Prisoners of Life: Dostoevsky’s Hero and Anti-hero 7. The Bad Faith of the Nonexistent Knight 8. Neo-Platonic love in fictional obsession Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include: “Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations” (2023), “Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), “A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death. The Metaphysics of Desire” (2024), “The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance” (2024) and “Romance in the Time of Modernism. A Literature of Silence” (2024).