The Demon of Noontide : : Ennui in Western Literature / / Reinhard Clifford Kuhn.
Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn. Between these two statements lies the undefined expanse of ennui, whose manifestations in Euro...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1976 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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