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Mortal No

Death and the Modern Imagination

Frederick John Hoffman

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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

Beschreibung

Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self.

Originally published in 1954.

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Schlagwörter

Arthur Schopenhauer, Poetry, Theodore Dreiser, Jean-Paul Sartre, Parody, With the Century, Anguish, Self-deception, Self-denial, Damnation, Pope Pius XII, Obscenity, Reasonable person, Romanticism, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Jaspers, Pity, Fatalism, Émile Zola, Absurdity, Apathy, Distrust, Oppression, Søren Kierkegaard, Peter Matthiessen, Dirty hands, Good and evil, God, Mock-heroic, Romantic hero, Novel of manners, Religion, Melodrama, Superiority (short story), Wickedness, Martyr, Orwellian, Egocentrism, Instant, Criticism, Pessimism, Sentimentality, Thought, Literature, Existentialism, David Hume, Aldous Huxley, Satire, World War II, Irony, SNAFU, Cowardice, Self-Reliance, Richard Aldington, The Princess Casamassima, Suggestion, Falsity, The Idiot, Ambiguity, Memento mori, Warfare, Death, Meanness, War, Antithesis, Secularization, Consciousness, Jehovah's Witnesses, Secularism