The Demon of Noontide : : Ennui in Western Literature /

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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Kuhn, Reinhard Clifford,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1976
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5087
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE BLACK GALL
  • 2. THE DEMON OF NOONTIDE
  • 3. THE NAMELESS WOE
  • 4. THE DISPOSSESSED MONARCH
  • 5. THE DESCENT INTO THE CAVE OF SPLEEN
  • 6. ELEGIES OF SUFFERING
  • 7. CHILDREN OF THE CENTURY
  • 8. THE DRAINING OF THE CLEPSYDRA
  • 9. WITHIN THE FLATTENED CYLINDER
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter

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