1999, ISBN: 0226075524

[EAN: 9780226075525], Neubuch, [PU: The University of Chicago Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Through critical readings of key works of modern European literatur… More...

[EAN: 9780226075525], Neubuch, [PU: The University of Chicago Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage more in tune with our time and our needs: deficiency translated into strength, failure experienced as honesty, dignity achieved through humiliation. Brombert explores these paradoxes in the works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus, and Levi. Coming from diverse cultural and linguistic traditions, these writers all use the figure of the antihero to question handed-down assumptions, to re-examine moral categories, and to raise issues of survival and renewal embodying the spirit of an uneasy age., Books<

ISBN: 9780226075525

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has ar… More...

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], Through critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined., Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900<

1999, ISBN: 9780226075525

Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Chicago Press], University of Chicago Press, 1999