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Hesitant Heroes : Private Inhibition, Cultural Crisis /

"Why, Theodore Ziolkowski wonders, does Western literature abound with figures who experience a crucial moment of uncertainty in their actions? In this highly original and engaging work, he explores the significance of these unlikely heroes for literature and history." "From Aeneas -...

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Autor principal: Ziolkowski, Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: The Paradox of the Hesitant Hero --  |t Aeneas, or Hesitation in Hesperia --  |t The Context --  |t The Problematic Ending --  |t To Kill or Not to Kill --  |t Inhibition: The Pause That Represses --  |t The Historical Analogy --  |t Orestes, or Anguish in Argos --  |t The Curse of the Atrides --  |t Orestes' Hesitation --  |t The Consequences --  |t The Dramatic Context --  |t The Historical Dimension --  |t The Trojan Dilemma --  |t Parzival, or Silence at Munsalvaesche --  |t Parzival's Hesitation --  |t The Mysteries of Munsalvaesche --  |t The Sequel --  |t The Hesitation Re-Viewed --  |t Fin-de-sic̈le Concerns --  |t Hamlet, or Anomy in Elsinore --  |t Hamlet, Aeneas, Orestes --  |t Preliminaries --  |t Hamlet's "Antic Disposition" --  |t The Rotten State --  |t Time out of Joint --  |t Wallenstein, or Evasions in Bohemia --  |t The Background --  |t Wallenstein's Delay --  |t Wallenstein's Hesitation --  |t War as Paradigm --  |t Wavering Heroes, from Scotland to Spain --  |t The Wavering Hero --  |t The Hegelian View --  |t Romantic Varieties --  |t Modern Modifications. 
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