1st Edition
From Narcissism to Nihilism Self-Love and Self-Negation in Early Modern Literature
By Anthony Archdeacon
Copyright 2022
198 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The poetics of personal nothingness
Chapter 3 The Narcissus myth and English Petrarchism
Chapter 4 Negation and self-negation in amatory verse
Chapter 5 The glorious nothingness of authorship
Chapter 6 Social and political contexts
Biography
Anthony Archdeacon teaches at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is interested in early modern poetry, drama, ideas and culture.
