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Great ideas in the Western literary canon

Wayne Cristaudo (Author), Peter Poiana (Author)
Print Book, English, cop. 2003
University Press of America, Lanham, Md., cop. 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
IX, 244 str. ; 22 cm.
9780761823964, 0761823964
1039694509
The tragic affirmation of rage in Homer's "The Iliad"
The religion of fear in Sophocles' "Oedipus the king"
The power of love in Dante's "The divine comedy
Rabelais' vitalism, or, Feasting, flagons, fornicatin, fighting, fertility, farting, fun and freedom from fear and fools in "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Truth and persuasion in Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
Wisdom and mastery in Shakespeare's "The tempest"
Will, pride and enslavement in Milton's "Paradise lost"
Striving in Goethe's "Faust"
Ennui in Baudelaire's "The flowers of evil"
Parricide and deicide in Dostoyevsky's "The brothers Karamazov"
The monument of time in Proust's "Swann's Way"
The anxiety of origins and the trials of filiation in Joyce's "Ulysses."