Bitter Carnival : Ressentiment and the Abject Hero

by Bernstein, Michael Andre

• ISBN13: 9780691069395
• ISBN10: 0691069395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Bitter Carnival	p. 2
Introduction Murder and the Utopian Moment	p. 3
Problems and Precursors	p. 11
I Wear Not Motley in My Brain: Slaves, Fools, and Abject Heroes	p. 13
O Totiens Servus: Horace, Juvenal, and the Classical Saturnalia	p. 34
The Abject Hero Emerges	p. 58
Oui, Monsieur Le Philosophe: Diderot's Le Neveu De Rameau	p. 59
The Poetics of Ressentiment	p. 84
Lacerations: the Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky	p. 87
L'apocalypse À Crédit: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's War Trilogy	p. 121
These Children That Come at You with Knives: Charles Manson and the Modern Saturnalia	p. 157
Notes	p. 185
Index	p. 235
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