LEADER 04516nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910812104603321 005 20230823233145.0 010 $a1-282-75153-0 010 $a9786612751530 010 $a1-4008-2063-4 010 $a1-4008-1104-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820634 035 $a(CKB)111056486505772 035 $a(EBL)581566 035 $a(OCoLC)700688451 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11830371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10099016 035 $a(PQKB)10513313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581566 035 $a(OCoLC)51534292 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35923 035 $a(DE-B1597)446043 035 $a(OCoLC)979741412 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820634 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581566 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035796 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275153 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505772 100 $a19910626d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBitter carnival $eressentiment and the abject hero /$fMichael Andre? Bernstein 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (254 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-06939-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-234) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Murder and the Utopian Moment --$tPART I: PROBLEMS AND PRECURSORS --$tOne. I Wear Not Motley in My Brain: Slaves, Fools, and Abject Heroes --$tTwo. O Totiens Servus: Horace, Juvenal, and the Classical Saturnalia --$tPart II: THE ABJECT HERO EMERGES --$tThree. Oui, Monsieur le Philosophe: Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau --$tPART III: THE POETICS OF RESSENTIMENT --$tFour. Lacerations: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky --$tFive. L'Apocalypse à Crédit: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's War Trilogy --$tSix. These Children That Come at You with Knives: Charles Manson and the Modern Saturnalia --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $a"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this contradiction and defines a new figure: the Abject Hero. Standing at the junction of contestation and conformity, the Abject Hero occupies the logically impossible space created by the intersection of the satanic and the servile. Bernstein shows that we heroicize the Abject Hero because he represents a convention that has become a staple of our common mythology, as seductive in mass culture as it is in high art. Moving from an examination of classical Latin satire; through radically new analyses of Diderot, Dostoevsky, and Cline; and culminating in the courtroom testimony of Charles Manson, Bitter Carnival offers a revisionist rereading of the entire tradition of the "Saturnalian dialogue" between masters and slaves, monarchs and fools, philosophers and madmen, citizens and malcontents. It contests the supposedly regenerative power of the carnivalesque and challenges the pieties of utopian radicalism fashionable in contemporary academic thinking. The clarity of its argument and literary style compel us to confront a powerful dilemma that engages some of the most central issues in literary studies, ethics, cultural history, and critical theory today. 606 $aAbjection in literature 606 $aHeroes in literature 606 $aCynicism in literature 606 $aComparative literature$xThemes, motives 615 0$aAbjection in literature. 615 0$aHeroes in literature. 615 0$aCynicism in literature. 615 0$aComparative literature$xThemes, motives. 676 $a809/.93353 700 $aBernstein$b Michael Andre?$f1947-$01153138 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812104603321 996 $aBitter carnival$93919681 997 $aUNINA