Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include: “Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations” (2023), “Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), “A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death. The Metaphysics of Desire” (2024), “The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance” (2024) and “Romance in the Time of Modernism. A Literature of Silence” (2024).
<p>"Probing into the entrenched bond between love, sexuality, and violence and its function of state-building in twentieth century Latin America, this book is a fascinating re-interpretation of the literature within the context of the political and social tumults. Rethinking history in an age when authoritative history is mistrusted, its clarification on the “structure of feeling” of Latin American geo-cultural reality points to a cartographic imagination and re-enchantment of the complex reality. A must read for students of literature, sociology and cultural studies."</p><p><b>Xiaoping Wang</b>, <i>Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Tongji University, China. </i></p><p>"In<i> Labyrinths of Love</i>, Alberto Castelli offers sensitive and perceptive new investigations of some of the major voices in Latin American literature. In so doing, he examines various conceptions of love and how they both intersect with and subvert larger sociopolitical concerns. Castelli's volume delivers a strong combination of theoretical understanding and close reading."</p><p><b>James M. Decker </b>(<i>Ph.D.), Co-Editor, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.</i></p>
<p>"Probing into the entrenched bond between love, sexuality, and violence and its function of state-building in twentieth century Latin America, this book is a fascinating re-interpretation of the literature within the context of the political and social tumults. Rethinking history in an age when authoritative history is mistrusted, its clarification on the “structure of feeling” of Latin American geo-cultural reality points to a cartographic imagination and re-enchantment of the complex reality. A must read for students of literature, sociology and cultural studies."</p><p><b>Xiaoping Wang</b>, <i>Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Tongji University, China. </i></p><p>"In<i> Labyrinths of Love</i>, Alberto Castelli offers sensitive and perceptive new investigations of some of the major voices in Latin American literature. In so doing, he examines various conceptions of love and how they both intersect with and subvert larger sociopolitical concerns. Castelli's volume delivers a strong combination of theoretical understanding and close reading."</p><p><b>James M. Decker </b>(<i>Ph.D.), Co-Editor, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.</i></p>
This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy. It investigates seemingly incomprehensible behaviours from the perspective of philosophy and expounds on love by using Darwinism, Marxism, Existentialism, Plato, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Barthes as tools of investigation. The author deconstructs 20 literary texts and presents a work of literary criticism in which literary theories are blended with philosophical theories on the self.
An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy, comparative literature, world literature, modern fiction, romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
1. Recalling Metanarrative: Darwinism in Literature 2. A Love That Kills: The Idiot 3. Philosophical and textual strands of Il Deserto dei Tartari 4. Shades of Love in Love in The Time of Cholera 5. Camus, the absurd Meursault, and Alexandros Panagoulis 6. Prisoners of Life: Dostoevsky’s Hero and Anti-hero 7. The Bad Faith of the Nonexistent Knight 8. Neo-Platonic love in fictional obsession Epilogue
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Alberto Castelli is a writer and a humanities professor at Hainan University, China. He is known for his extensive work on modernism, postmodern dynamics, and cross-cultural studies. Some of his notable publications include: “Eros and Thanatos. Love Across Civilizations” (2023), “Love, Beauty or Morality (Springer 2024), “A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death. The Metaphysics of Desire” (2024), “The Labyrinth of Love: A Tale of Latin American Romance” (2024) and “Romance in the Time of Modernism. A Literature of Silence” (2024).