Self-Realization: Analysis of a Primary Literary Theme

ISBN-13: 9781433187254 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Hugo Walter; Virginia L. Lewis; Edward T. Larkin

Opis

The self as a primary literary element can be identified as an axis of symmetry, similar to a central section of a wheel, which connects to all related themes.

Spis treści

Introduction - Figures at Cross- Roads - Self- Realization: Coming- of- Age. Search for Orientation. Experience of Reality. Journey - Integration: Controlling Destiny by Accepting Existing Social Conditions - Isolation: The Shattered Self - Criticism of Society - Figures Probing the Current Historical Situation: Understanding the Past. Blindness and Self- Insight- Self- Realization and Vision of the Future - Conclusion: Self As Axis - Bibliography - Author Index - Index of Examined Works.

O autorze

Horst S. Daemmrich studied at the University of Chicago and taught at Chicago, Wayne State University, and University of Pennsylvania. He received the Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Awards (1975, 1979) and the Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished research and teaching (1990). He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a life-time member of the Literary Academy of Scholars, the Modern Language Association of America, and Phi Beta Kappa.

He is the author and co-author with Ingrid G. Daemmrich of numerous books on themes and motifs in literature and the author of books on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Wilhelm Raabe, Karl Krolow, comprehending the past, and literary theory. His most recent study is Vergangenheit. Perspektiven der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (2017).