Bitter Carnival : : Ressentiment and the Abject Hero / / Michael André Bernstein.
"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 teac...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Murder and the Utopian Moment
- PART I: PROBLEMS AND PRECURSORS
- One. I Wear Not Motley in My Brain: Slaves, Fools, and Abject Heroes
- Two. O Totiens Servus: Horace, Juvenal, and the Classical Saturnalia
- Part II: THE ABJECT HERO EMERGES
- Three. Oui, Monsieur le Philosophe: Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau
- PART III: THE POETICS OF RESSENTIMENT
- Four. Lacerations: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Five. L'Apocalypse à Crédit: Louis-Ferdinand Céline's War Trilogy
- Six. These Children That Come at You with Knives: Charles Manson and the Modern Saturnalia
- Notes
- Index