"The Contradiction at the Heart of the World": Nietzsche, Jesus, and the Detonation of Denotation
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This investigation represents what one could call an exercise in postmodern reader-response criticism. In it, I address the stylistic mechanisms by which contradictions inherent in the character of Jesus within Nietzsche's text invoke in the reader a psychological state analogous to the one Nietzsche attributes to Jesus. This trajectory is examined as a possible device towards a non-reactive means of combating ressentiment. Implications of how language figures into such a systemically aconceptual endeavor are discussed.
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Name(s)
Author: Conuel, Brendan Thomas
Thesis advisor: Rubenstein, Mary-Jane
Date
April 15, 2010
Extent
89 pages
Language
eng
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Physical Form
electronic
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Subject
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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PID
ir:1821