Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon

Wayne Cristaudo is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.Peter Poiana is a Lecturer in French, Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Acknowledgments and PermissionsChapter 3 The Tragic Affirmation of Rage in Homer's The IliadChapter 4 The Religion of Fear in Sophocles' Oedipus the KingChapter 5 The Power of Love in Dante's The Divine ComedyChapter 6 Rabelais' Vitalism OR Feasting, Flagons, Fornicating, Fighting, Fertility, Farting, Fun and Freedom from Fear and Fools in Gargantua and PantagruelChapter 7 Truth and Persuasion in Cervantes' Don QuixoteChapter 8 Wisdom and Mastery in Shakespeare's The TempestChapter 9 Will, Pride and Enslavement in Milton's Paradise LostChapter 10 Striving in Goethe's FaustChapter 11 Ennui in Baudelaire's The Flowers of EvilChapter 12 Parricide and Deicide in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers KaramazovChapter 13 The Monument of Time in Proust's Swann's WayChapter 14 The Anxiety of Origins and the Trials of Filiation in Joyce's UlyssesChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 Index