Paranoia and Modernity Cervantes to Rousseau /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farrell, John, 1957-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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