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基本説明
The twelve chapters of this book each deal with one great text and the central idea that propels it.
Full Description
This book examines 'great ideas'- the term used generically to refer to the deep-seated anxieties that art, religion and philosophy all seek to address- in relation to a selection of great literary texts. The texts chosen are those that remain, often centuries after their appearance, beacons of illumination and wisdom. The twelve chapters of this book each deal with one great text and the central idea that propels it. The ideas are examined as events possessed of their own field of resonance, and it is by tracing them in their narrative, dramatic or lyrical development that one can appreciate how these great texts speak as powerfully as they do to generations of readers.
Contents
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments and Permissions
Chapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad
Chapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Chapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy
Chapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel
Chapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Chapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Chapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost
Chapter 10 Striving in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Chapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Chapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way
Chapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index
