Mortal No : : Death and the Modern Imagination / / Frederick John Hoffman.
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 b...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1954 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (524 p.) |
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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