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Mortal No : Death and the Modern Imagination / Frederick John Hoffman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2273Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1954Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691623689
  • 9781400878185
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93 22
LOC classification:
  • PN771 .H57eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS -- PART ONE. GRACE -- 1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM -- 2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE -- PART TWO. VIOLENCE -- 3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE -- 4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT -- 5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER -- 6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE -- 7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II -- 8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP -- 9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE -- PART THREE. SELF -- 10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF -- 11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME -- 12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE -- 13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING -- 14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF -- INDEX
Summary: Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: A LOOK AT THE TERMS -- PART ONE. GRACE -- 1. VIOLENCE AND DECORUM -- 2. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SECULAR GRACE -- PART TWO. VIOLENCE -- 3. THE ASSAILANT AND THE VICTIM: SOME DEFINITIONS OF MODERN VIOLENCE -- 4. THE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE: ERNST JUENGER AND THE LITERARY PROBLEM OF FACT -- 5. THE SCENE OF VIOLENCE: DOSTOEVSKY AND DREISER -- 6. THE IMAGERY OF CATASTROPHE -- 7. "TERROR'S UNIQUE ENIGMA": THE LITERATURE OF WORLD WAR II -- 8. THE HERO IN ABSENTIA: THE CONCENTRATION CAMP -- 9. KAFKA'S THE TRIAL: THE ASSAILANT AS LANDSCAPE -- PART THREE. SELF -- 10. THE TRANSCENDENT SELF -- 11. "ECSTATIC TEMPORALITY": THE SELF IN TIME -- 12. "THE BOOK OF HIMSELF": JOYCE AND LAWRENCE -- 13. EXISTENTIALIST LIVING AND DYING -- 14. CONCLUSION: THE WHEEL OF SELF -- INDEX

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Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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