University Press of America
Pages: 256
Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-0-7618-2396-4 • Paperback • April 2003 • $76.99 • (£59.00)
Wayne Cristaudo is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Peter Poiana is a Lecturer in French, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments and Permissions
Chapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad
Chapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Chapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy
Chapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel
Chapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don Quixote
Chapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest
Chapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost
Chapter 10 Striving in Goethe's Faust
Chapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Chapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Chapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way
Chapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index