From Narcissism to Nihilism

ISBN-13: 9781032195414 / Miękka / 2023 / 186 str.

Anthony (Khalifa University) Archdeacon

Opis

This book explores how the myth of Narcissus, which is at once about self-love and self-destruction, desire and death, beauty and pain, became an ambivalent symbol of humanistic endeavour, and articulated the conflicts of early modern authorship.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The poetics of personal nothingness

Chapter 3 The Narcissus myth and English Petrarchism

Chapter 4 Negation and self-negation in amatory verse

Chapter 5 The glorious nothingness of authorship

Chapter 6 Social and political contexts

O autorze

Anthony Archdeacon teaches at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is interested in early modern poetry, drama, ideas and culture.