Great ideas in the Western literary canon / Wayne Cristaudo, Peter Poiana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cristaudo, Wayne, 1954-

Contributor:

Poiana, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

ix, 244 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad 1

Chapter 2 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King 19

Chapter 3 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy 37

Chapter 4 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel 61

Chapter 5 Truth and Persuasion In Cervantes' Don Quixote 85

Chapter 6 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest 101

Chapter 7 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost 121

Chapter 8 Striving in Goethe's Faust 137

Chapter 9 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil 153

Chapter 10 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov 171

Chapter 11 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way 195

Chapter 12 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials Of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-239) and index.

ISBN:

0761823964

OCLC:

50280059