Bitter Carnival : Ressentiment and the Abject Hero

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"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernstein, Michael Andre
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Heroes in literature.
Cynicism in literature.
Comparative literature > Themes, motives.
Abjection in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Litterature comparee > Themes, motifs.
Cynisme dans la litterature.
Heros dans la litterature.
Abjection dans la litterature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. ... They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this co.
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages).
ISBN:9781400820634

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