Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments and Permissions
Chapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad
Chapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Chapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy
Chapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel
Chapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Chapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Chapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost
Chapter 10 Striving in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Chapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Chapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way
Chapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Wayne Cristaudo is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Peter Poiana is a Lecturer in French, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wayne Cristaudo, Peter Poiana, Poiana Peter
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.04.2003
• EAN: 9780761823964
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2396-4
• Abmessung: 143 mm x 213 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 308 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, REFERENCE / General, Literary studies: general, Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects, Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects