LEADER 02424nam 22003613 450 001 9910865287403321 005 20240618080241.0 010 $a9789819730360$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789819730353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31480673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31480673 035 $a(CKB)32306635800041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932306635800041 100 $a20240618d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death $eThe Metaphysics of Desire 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (175 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Castelli, Alberto A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death Singapore : Springer,c2024 9789819730353 327 $aIntro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Love that Kills: The Idiot -- The Esthetic and the Ethical Dialectic -- Neighborly Love Versus Preferential Love -- Explaining the Ending -- An Idiotic Ideal? -- 2 Isabel Archer: A Case for Female Masochist Tendencies -- The Roots of Evil -- Self-Defeating Personality: A Case of Masochism -- Conclusion -- 3 Romantic Agony: Young Werther and Jacopo Ortis -- A Tragic Understanding -- A Dürkheimian Suicide18 -- 4 Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel -- Mental Illness as a Cause -- Julien Sorel: A Case of Bipolar Disorder -- Madame Bovary: A Case of Cognitive Dissonance -- Anna Karenina: A Case of Post-traumatic Amnesia -- Conclusion -- 5 Women of Modernism: The Meaning is Deferred -- Introduction -- Inconsistency of Character -- Tea Gatherings -- Conclusion -- 6 The Love Song of the Underground Men -- Two Strange Men -- Nerves in Patterns -- Conclusion -- 7 The Unbearable Lightness of Providence -- A Nietzschean Doubt -- Tomas and the Grand Inquisitor -- The Dialectic Freedom Versus Determinism -- Conclusion -- 8 The Orphans of Love -- Overlapping Narrative -- Narrative Against the Grain -- Love in Absence -- A Non-cathartic Literature? -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index. 700 $aCastelli$b Alberto$078602 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865287403321 996 $aA Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death$94168752 997 $aUNINA