This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.
This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviours from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.
An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy, comparative literature, world literature, modern fiction, romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
Preface vi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Recalling metanarrative: Darwinism in
literature 1 2 A love that kills: The Idiot 18 3 Philosophical and textual
strands of Il deserto dei tartari 39 4 Shades of love in Love in the Time of
Cholera 56 5 Camus, the absurd Meursault, and Alexandros Panagoulis 72 6
Prisoners of life: Dostoevskys hero and anti-hero 87 7 The bad faith of the
nonexistent knight 101 8 Neo-platonic love in fictional obsession 120
Epilogue 138 Bibliography 141 Index 153
Alberto Castelli is a writer and a well-established scholar at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include Eros and Thanatos: Love across Civilizations (2023), Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death: The Metaphysics of Desire (2024), The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance (2024), and Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence (2024).
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