E-Book, Englisch, 524 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Hoffman Mortal No
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7818-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Death and the Modern Imagination
E-Book, Englisch, 524 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7818-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.
Originally published in 1954.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Frontmatter, pg. i
PREFACE, pg. vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi
CONTENTS, pg. xv
INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS, pg. 1
1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM, pg. 23
2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE, pg. 94
3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE, pg. 139
4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT, pg. 158
5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER, pg. 179
6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE, pg. 202
7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II, pg. 224
8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, pg. 267
9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE, pg. 291
10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF, pg. 317
11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME, pg. 341
12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE, pg. 393
13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING, pg. 424
14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF, pg. 453
INDEX, pg. 495
