A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death : The Metaphysics of Desire

• Autore: Castelli Alberto
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death
• ISBN: 9789819730360; 9789819730353
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910865287403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II