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O’Hara, Daniel T.

 
9780814256701: Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir
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ISBN 10: 0814256708 ISBN 13: 9780814256701
Editorial: Ohio State University Press, 2020

Sinopsis

Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir, by Daniel T. O’Hara, acknowledges that the modern conception of literary genius is probably most lucidly expressed in the criticism of Lionel Trilling. But O’Hara also demonstrates that certain important and widely read mid-century modern fictional memoirs subversively return to an earlier conception that emphasizes the demonic nature of genius, a conception that is associated with the occult and the visionary and embraces the vision of evil articulated in earlier literature. O’Hara argues that Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus (1947), Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), and William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) all demonstrate an imagining of genius in art and in life that stands in stark and total opposition to the emerging post–World War II age of conformity. These influential works show that genius is inherently a dangerous reality, albeit a creative one. Despite its most transcendent appearances, the full immanence of this conception of demonic genius condemns the modern world to a Last Judgment that is every bit as severe as any envisioned in the Western religious traditions.

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Daniel T. O'Hara is Professor of English and First Mellon Term Professor of Humanities at Temple University.

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Editorial
Ohio State University Press
Año de publicación
2020
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0814256708
ISBN 13 
9780814256701
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Número de páginas
92
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