Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero
"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teac...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
2001
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| Dans: | Année: 2001 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Comparative literature - Themes, motives
B Abjection dans la littérature B Littérature comparée - Thèmes, motifs B Cynisme dans la littérature B LITERARY CRITICISM - General B Comparative Literature Themes, motives B Cynicism in literature B Abjection in literature B Héros dans la littérature B Heroes in literature |
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Volltext (Maison d'édition) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | "You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. ... They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this co Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 Online-Ressource (254 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1-4008-2063-4 978-1-4008-2063-4 |
