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9780761823964

Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761823964

  • ISBN10:

    0761823964

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-04-08
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

This book examines 'great ideas'- the term used generically to refer to the deep-seated anxieties that art, religion and philosophy all seek to address- in relation to a selection of great literary texts. The texts chosen are those that remain, often centuries after their appearance, beacons of illumination and wisdom. The twelve chapters of this book each deal with one great text and the central idea that propels it. The ideas are examined as events possessed of their own field of resonance, and it is by tracing them in their narrative, dramatic or lyrical development that one can appreciate how these great texts speak as powerfully as they do to generations of readers.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgments and Permissions xi
The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad
1(18)
The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King
19(18)
The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy
37(24)
Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel
61(24)
Truth and Persuasion In Cervantes' Don Quixote
85(16)
Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest
101(20)
Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost
121(16)
Striving in Goethe's Faust
137(16)
Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
153(18)
Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
171(24)
The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way
195(18)
The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials Of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses
213(18)
Bibliography 231(10)
Index 241

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