Bitter Carnival: Ressentiment and the Abject Hero
"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teac...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Princeton
Princeton University Press
2001
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| In: | Year: 2001 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Girard, René 1923-2015
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Electronic books
B Literature, Comparative Themes, motives |
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| Summary: | "You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this c |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (254 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-06939-5 |
