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Author Beebe, Maurice.

Title Ivory towers and sacred founts: the artist as hero in fiction from Goethe to Joyce / by Maurice Beebe.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, 1964.

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 Moore Stacks  PN3491 .B4    Available  ---
Description x, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The divided self -- The artist as archetype -- I. Beginnings -- II. Goethe -- III. Rousseau -- IV. "I" As hero: The confessional novel, 1785-1869 -- Art as experience -- The sacred fount tradition -- I. Romantics -- II. Apprentices to art -- III. Tapping the sacred fount -- Art as religion -- The ivory tower tradition -- I. The universe of Roderick Usher -- II. Demons, dandies, and divines -- III. Esthetes and exiles -- The novelist as creator / Honorʹe de Balzac -- The ideal of detachment / Henry James -- The quest for self / Marcel Proust -- The return from exile / James Joyce.
Subject Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction.
Artists in literature.
Artists in literature.