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Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov

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Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov

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The three works considered in Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov display a striking overlap in their concern with hierarchy and mutuality as parallel and often intersecting way of how human beings relate to each other and to divine forces in the universe. All three contain adversarial protagonists whose stature often commands admiration from audiences less ready to confront their motives and deeds than to be swayed by their verbal harangues. Why the quest for personal power should disturb the serenity of mutual love with such compelling force is an issue that Milton, Melville and Dostoevsky address with varying degrees of self-consciousness. In their texts the seeds of disaster seem to sprout in both spiritual and barren soil, sometimes nurtured by a hierarchy that gave them birth, at others in reaction against a hierarchy that would stifle their energy. The purpose of this study is to analyze the origins and the consequences of such tensions.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Hierarchy and Mutuality
Chapter One: Portents
Chapter Two: Conflicts
Chapter Three: Dual Vision
Chapter Four: The Fruits of Ressentiment
Chapter Five: Justice and Judgment
Chapter Six: Endings
Bibliography
About the Author

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Published Sep 02 2022
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 310
ISBN 9781666918779
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Lawrence L. Langer

Lawrence L. Langer is professor of English emeritu…

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