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A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death : The Metaphysics of Desire
| A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death : The Metaphysics of Desire |
| Autore | Castelli Alberto |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
| ISBN |
9789819730360
9789819730353 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910865287403321 |
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| Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Love, Beauty or Morality
| Love, Beauty or Morality |
| Autore | Castelli Alberto |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (195 pages) |
| ISBN | 981-9723-97-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- A Moment of Re-enchantment -- Notes -- O Tell Me the Truth About Love -- The Laws of Love -- Plato: The Origin of the Western Discourse -- Love as Sickness -- Renaissance: Love as Path to God -- Love as Ethic -- The Selfish Twentieth Century -- Notes -- The Beauty of Unfulfillment -- A Close Reading -- Unfulfillment as a Choice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Unrequited Love -- Eros and Thanatos -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- Romanticism: The Solipsistic Nature of Incest -- Incest: A Religious Veto -- Incest: A Romantic Alienation -- A Moral Conclusion -- Notes -- Shades of Love -- The Cruel Century -- Notes -- The Waste Land of Love -- What is The Waste Land? -- A Hermeneutic Analysis of Love -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Neo-Platonic Love in Fictional Obsessions -- A Brief Introduction to Neoplatonism -- Kawabata's Sleeping Beauties -- Márquez's Sleeping Whore -- Coetzee's Sleeping Barbarian -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Lolita and Laide: The Curse of Youth -- Salvation Through Youth -- Art After Youth -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Terror and Sublime: A Tale of Love -- Oscar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler -- Egon Schiele and Wally Neuzil -- Edward Munch and Her -- A Tense Love -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910864193703321 |
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Castelli Alberto
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| Singapore : , : Springer, , 2024 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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