Canetti and Nietzsche : theories of humor in Die Blendung
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Canetti and Nietzsche : theories of humor in Die Blendung
（SUNY series, the margins of literature）
State University of New York Press, c1997
- : ch.: alk. paper
- : pb.: alk. paper
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Bibliography: p. 407-439
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Now translated into more than twenty-two languages, Die Blendung, known in its English translation as either The Tower of Babel or Auto-da-Fe, has become something of a popular novel. Canetti and Nietzsche is the first full-length study of Canetti's novel to do justice to the profound implications of its peculiarly original sense of humor, one which typically finds its expression in facetiousness. It understands facetiousness, through Nietzsche, as a performance art--an art that equates truth with the wisdom that life should be about the effort we put into creative acts. Examining both the theory and practice of humor, Murphy relates her own theoretical insights to the international debates concerning the influence of political correctness and the liberal Left inside and outside the universities.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Genesis of the Novel
2. The Reception of Die Blendung: The Critical Reputation of the Novel
3. Agon's Carnival: Laughter and Play in Die Blendung (1) or "Alle guten Dinge lachen"
4. Agon's Carnival: Laughter and Play in Die Blendung (2)
5. Dionysus Dissolves Fixity and Form: "Frohlockender Wahnsinn" in Die Blendung
6. Paradoy, Postmodernism, Careerism
7. Pure Comic Alogism or the Music that is Non-sense: "Frohlockender Wahsinn" in "Privateigentum" and Thereafter
8. The Breakdown of Agon: Degeneration of Play and the Rise of the Big Idea
Conclusion. Finished and Unfinished Business: The Place of the Novel in the Works as a Whole
Notes
Bibliography: General Sources Consulted
Bibliography: Specialist Sources Consulted
Index
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