From Narcissism to Nihilism: Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367858568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Anthony 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.

O autorze

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