Issues of shame and guilt in the modern novel : Conrad, Ford, Greene, Kafka, Camus, Wilde, Proust, and Mann /

This study addresses the changes in literary depictions of remorse fostered by modernist literature's response to normative ethical standards. Certain twentieth-century authors believed that the High Modern Period demanded a reconsideration of how individuals may hope to achieve the same social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tenenbaum, David, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Mann, Thomas.
Kafka, Franz.
Shame in literature.
Guilt in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Honte dans la littérature.
Culpabilité dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Guilt in literature
Shame in literature
Scham > Motiv
Schuld > Motiv
Literatur
Europa
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Survivor guilt: Conrad's anti-heroes
  • Keeping up appearances: aristocratic anxiety in the novels of Ford Madox Ford
  • The modern confessional: Catholic guilt in the novels of Graham Greene And François Mauriac
  • Elders, institutions and existential guilt in the fiction of Franz Kafka and Albert Camus
  • Queer imaginings: l'amour d'impossible in Wilde, James, Proust and Mann
  • Afterword: the great escape: the reverence and regret of the American dream.

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