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Ivory towers and sacred founts : the artist as hero in fiction from Goethe to Joyce

Title: Ivory towers and sacred founts : the artist as hero in fiction from Goethe to Joyce / by Mairoce Beebe.
Author: Beebe, Maurice.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, 1964.

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Description

x, 323 pages; 25 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

1. The Traditions -- One: The Divided Self: The Artist as Archetype -- I. Beginnings -- II. Goethe -- III. Rousseau -- IV. "I" As Hero: The Confessional Novel, 1785-1869 -- Two: Art As Experience: The Sacred Fount Tradition -- I. Romantics -- II. Apprentices to Art -- III. Tapping the Sacred Fount -- Three: Art As Religion: The Ivory Tower Tradition -- I. The Universe of Roderick Usher -- II. Demons, Dandies, and Divines -- III. Esthetes and Exiles -- 2. Four Masters -- Four: Honore De Balzac: The Novelist as Creator -- Five: Henry James: The Ideal of Detachment -- Six: Marcel Proust: The Quest for Self -- Seven: James Joyce: The Return from Exile.

LCCN

64016898

OCLC

ocm00253854
253854
SCSB-418936

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library