LEADER 04078nam 2200589 450 001 9910463949203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-95489-612-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000534381 035 $a(EBL)1640395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001215102 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11692212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001215102 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11191707 035 $a(PQKB)11436257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1640395 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1640395 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10856449 035 $a(OCoLC)871779988 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000534381 100 $a20140415h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApathy in literature $ea discourse on emotionless characters and concepts /$fMcCracken, Tony 210 1$aHamburg, Germany :$cAnchor Academic Publishing,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (97 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-95489-112-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aApathy in Literature; Contents; 1. Introduction; 1.2 What is apathy?; 2. Apathy as a character trait; 3. Unawareness of emotions -The Stranger; 3.1 First indications for apathy; 3.2 Apathy and moral guilt; 3.3 Reliability; 3.4 Apathy as Meursault's tragic flaw; 4. Controlling/repressing emotions - Hamlet; 4.1 Emotion and ratio; 4.2 Examples of repressed emotions: Hamlet in interaction with other characters; 4.3 Soliloquies and motivation; 4.4 Apathy as Hamlet's flaw; 5. Striving to feel - Fight Club; 5.1 Disrupting the state of apathy; 5.2 Who is Tyler Durden? 327 $a5.3 From copy to original - From apathy to emotion6. Emotion in relation to only one particular feature - Perfume; 6.1 Apathy, smell and existence; 6.2 Grenouille's apathy and further analysis of the character's motivation; 6.3 Crime fiction from the view of the murderer; 7. Apathy as social phenomenon - Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?; 7.1 The different social groups: three levels of human emotion; 7.2 Empathy and emotion for oneself; 7.3 Creating apathy in society; 7.4 Dystopias and utopias; 8. Apathy in the narration - Boyhood; 9. Apathy in the setting - Endgame and Dubliners 327 $a10. Intermediate conclusion10.1 The four types of apathetic characters; 10.2 The two forms of apathy as external concept; 10.3 Apathy in the setting and narration; 11. Comparison of further key differences; 11.1 Assimilation to society; 11.2 Religion; 11.3 Will to live and the downfall; 12. Criticism in the text (philosophy in literature); 12.1 Existence precedes essence; 12.2 Concept of time; 12.3 Concept of humanism; 12.4 Concept of freedom; 12.5 Ethical considerations; 13. Apathy in poems - Apathy and Enthusiasm; 14. The reader's experience / Differences between play, prose and poem 327 $a15. Final conclusion16. References 330 $aThis discourse focuses on the different concepts of apathy that appear in literature. Not only characterizations of apathetic protagonists, but also abstract concepts of apathy help to explore this special topic. Several important literary works from all sorts of genres function as examples to explain these concepts. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 'Camus' 'The Stranger', Palahniuk's 'Fight Club', Su?skind's 'Perfume', and Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' are only few of many literary works which are examined under the aspect of apathy in this study. Apathy is the lack of any kind of emoti 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature, Modern$zGermany 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 676 $a809.04 700 $aMcCracken$b Tony$0971044 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463949203321 996 $aApathy in literature$92207162 997 $aUNINA