Tom Ribitzky

The Seduction of Pessimism in the Novel

Eros, Failure, and the Quarrel with Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the novel as a response to the Platonic myth that narrates the rift at the core of our being. Eros is supposedly the consolation for this rift, but it expresses itself in the novel as the sigh of a world on its way out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 866g
• ISBN-13: 9781666901399
• ISBN-10: 1666901393
• Artikelnr.: 71230052

Autorenporträt

By Tom Ribitzky

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The Genre of Failure
Chapter Two: Kicking and Screaming: Pessimism Between Etymology and
Entomology
Chapter Three: Albertine's Absence
Chapter Four: Failed Consolations in Plato's Shadow
Chapter Five: From a Failed Theory of the Novel to a Novel of Failed
Theories
Chapter Six: The Criminality and Illegitimacy of the Novel
Chapter Seven: Consternations
Chapter Eight: Constellations
Chapter Nine: "A Globed Compacted Thing": Woolf's Cosmogony of Love and the
Paradox of Failure in To the Lighthouse
Chapter Ten: Cosmic Pessimism in Lady Chatterley's Lover: D.H. Lawrence's
Tristan Legend for the Twentieth Century
Chapter Eleven: "A Last Mirage of Wonder and Hopelessness": Andersen's "The
Little Mermaid" as a Shadow Text of Nabokov's Lolita
Chapter Twelve: Kierkegaard's Kiss: A Contribution to a Theory of the Novel
Chapter Thirteen: In Search of Lost Being
Chapter Fourteen: Seduction Against Production: The Novel as a Tool of
Pedagogy in a World Doomed to Neoliberal Optimism
Conclusion: Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Bibliography
About the Author