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"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farrell, John, 1957-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Personality and culture.
Agent (Philosophy)
Paranoia in literature.
Paranoia > Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern > Psychological aspects.
Personnalité et culture.
Paranoïa dans la littérature.
Paranoïa > Philosophie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Civilization, Modern > Psychological aspects
Paranoia in literature
Personality and culture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Agent and other
  • The responsible knight
  • The knight errant
  • Luther and the devil's world
  • The terrors of reform
  • The science of suspicion
  • The demons of Descartes and Hobbes
  • Pascal and power
  • The art of polite disguise
  • Swift and the satiric absolute
  • A flight from humanity
  • Invisible agents
  • Rousseau's great plot
  • An attempted escape
  • Epilogue : paranoia and postmodernism.

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