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From narcissism to nihilism = self-love and self-negation in early modern literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From narcissism to nihilism/ Anthony Archdeacon.
Reminder of title:	self-love and self-negation in early modern literature /
Author:	Archdeacon, Anthony.
Published:	New York :Routledge, : 2022.,
Description:	1 online resource (216 p.).
Subject:	LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry -
Online resource:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003259664
ISBN:	9781003259664

From narcissism to nihilism = self-love and self-negation in early modern literature /
Archdeacon, Anthony.

From narcissism to nihilismself-love and self-negation in early modern literature /[electronic resource] :Anthony Archdeacon. - First edition. - New York :Routledge,2022. - 1 online resource (216 p.). - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture.

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 The poetics of personal nothingnessChapter 3 The Narcissus myth and English PetrarchismChapter 4 Negation and self-negation in amatory verseChapter 5 The glorious nothingness of authorshipChapter 6 Social and political contexts

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. In early modern literature, there were expressions of humanistic self-congratulation that sometimes verged on narcissism, and at the same time expressions of self-doubt and anxiety that verged on nihilism. The themes of self-love and self-negation had a long history in western thought, and this book shows how the medieval treatments of the themes developed into something distinctive in the sixteenth century. The two themes, either individually or combined, encompass such topics as poverty, unrequited love, transgressive sexuality, sexual violence, suicidality, self-worth, authorship, religious penitence, martyrdom, courtly ambition and tyranny. Archdeacon uses over100 texts from the sixteenth andearly seventeenth centuries to show how the early modern writer existed in a culture of contrary forces pulling towards either self-affirmation or self-erasure. Writers attempted to negotiate between the polarised extremes of self-love andself-negation, realising that they are fundamental to how we respond to each other, our selves and the world.

ISBN: 9781003259664Subjects--Topical Terms:

834990
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
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LC Class. No.: PN721

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

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