Mortal No : : Death and the Modern Imagination / / Frederick John Hoffman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Hoffman, Frederick John,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1954
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2273
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)

Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS -- PART ONE. GRACE -- 1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM -- 2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE -- PART TWO. VIOLENCE -- 3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE -- 4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT -- 5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER -- 6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE -- 7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II -- 8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP -- 9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE -- PART THREE. SELF -- 10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF -- 11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME -- 12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE -- 13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING -- 14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF -- INDEX