Life without end : a thought experiment in literature from Swift to Houellebecq
Record details
- ISBN: 9781571139740
- ISBN: 1571139745
- ISBN: 9781787441033
- ISBN: 1787441032
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 212 pages)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.
- Copyright: �2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User. Originally published in German in 2015 under the title: Lebenszeit ohne Ende : Kulturgeschichte eines Gedankenexperiments in der Literatur. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Immortality in Science and Literature: Dreams and Nightmares -- Desire for Unending Life in "This World" -- Second Thoughts on Living Forever -- Chance of Literature: Forays into No-Man's-Land -- Preludes: Immortality in Myth and Folklore -- Risk of Literature: Limits of Creative Imagination -- Preview: A Literary Theme from Swift to Houellebecq -- 2. Literary Thought Experiments: Life Everlasting, from Blessing to Curse -- Overview: The Many Faces of Immortality -- "Joys All Want Eternity" -- Euphoria of Eternal Youth: J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan -- Eternity of the All-Too-Human: Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics -- Utopian Vision: G.B. Shaw, Back to Methuselah -- Living Dead: Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel -- Immortals and Their Antagonists -- God-Given Finitude: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels -- Immortal Ape: Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan -- Immortality, Totalitarian-Style: Walter Besant, The Inner House -- Without Death, No Life: Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars -- Scandal of Eternal Beauty: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray -- From God to Caveman: Jorge Luis Borges, "The Immortal" -- Immortality and Its Discontents -- Alchemy and Gothic Horror: William Godwin and Some English Romantics -- Boredom of the Cold Heart: Karel Capek, The Makropulos Secret -- Wandering Portuguese: J.M. Machado de Assis, "The Immortal" -- View from Sirius: Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal -- Surviving the End of the World: Martin Amis, "The Immortals" -- Lady in the Machine: Dino Buzzati, Larger than Life -- Trouble in Paradise: Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island -- World without Death: Disasters and Happy Endings -- Village in Turmoil: Iris Barry, The Last Enemy -- Country on the Brink of Ruin: Jose Saramago, Death at Intervals -- 3. Blessings of Mortality: Limited Time, Limitless Possibilities? -- Retrospect -- Renunciation and New Horizons -- Eternity Nevermore: Salman Rushdie, Grimus -- Living on in Memory: Gabi Gleichmann, The Elixir of Immortality -- "Limited Time as a Source of Strength"?: Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Immortality in literature BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Immortality in literature LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General JSTOR-DDA Multi-User. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |