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Автор: Farrell, John Farrell, John C.
Название: Paranoia and modernity
ISBN: 9780801474064
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

Литературоведение: поэзия и поэты

История идей

ISBN-10: 080147406X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.03 кг.
Дата издания: 04.10.2007
Язык: English
Размер: 23.09 x 15.34 x 2.11 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Cervantes to rousseau
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swifts Gulliver, Stendhals Julien Sorel, Melvilles Ahab, Dostoyevskys Underground Man, Ibsens Masterbuilder Solness, Strindbergs Captain (in The Father), Kafkas K., and Joyces autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others.—from Paranoia and Modernity

Paranoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its peculiar constellation of symptoms—grandiosity, suspicion, unfounded hostility, delusions of persecution and conspiracy—are nearly obligatory psychological components of the modern hero.

How did paranoia come to the center of modern moral and intellectual consciousness? In Paranoia and Modernity, John Farrell brings literary criticism, psychology, and intellectual history to the attempt at an answer. He demonstrates the connection between paranoia and the long history of struggles over the question of agency—the extent to which we are free to act and responsible for our actions. He addresses a wide range of major authors from the late Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, among them Luther, Bacon, Cervantes, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Swift, and Rousseau. Farrell shows how differently paranoid psychology looks at different historical junctures with different models of agency, and in the epilogue, Paranoia and Postmodernism, he draws the implications for recent critical debates in the humanities.

Paranoia and modernity, Farrell, John Farrell, John C.