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Author Bernstein, Michael André, 1947-

Title Bitter carnival : ressentiment and the abject hero / Michael André Bernstein.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-234) and index.
Contents Introduction : murder and the Utopian movement -- I wear not motley in my brain : slaves, fools, and abject heroes -- O totiens servus : Horace, Juvenal, and the classical Saturnalia -- Oui, monsieur le philosophe : Diderot's Le neveu de Rameau -- Lacerations : the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky -- L'Apocalypse à crédit : Louis-Ferdinand Céline's war trilogy -- These children that come at you with knives : Charles Manson and the modern Saturnalia.
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Subject Abjection in literature.
Abjection in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Cynicism in literature.
Cynicism in literature.
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Ressentiment and the abject hero
Other Form: Print version: Bernstein, Michael André, 1947- Bitter carnival. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992 0691069395 (DLC) 91025871 (OCoLC)24142149
ISBN 140081104X (electronic book)
9781400811045 (electronic book)
9780691069395 (alkaline paper)
0691069395 (alkaline paper)