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Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments and Permissions Chapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad Chapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King Chapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy Chapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel Chapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don Quixote Chapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest Chapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost Chapter 10 Striving in Goethe's Faust Chapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil Chapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way Chapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index

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      Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
      Publication Date: 4/8/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780761823964, 978-0761823964
      ISBN10: 0761823964

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      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments and Permissions Chapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The Iliad Chapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the King Chapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine Comedy Chapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and Pantagruel Chapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don Quixote Chapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The Tempest Chapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise Lost Chapter 10 Striving in Goethe's Faust Chapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil Chapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov Chapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's Way Chapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's Ulysses Chapter 15 Bibliography Chapter 16 Index

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