Canetti and Nietzsche
Subtitle: Theories of Humor in Die Blendung (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780791431337
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; History and criticism; Germanic Literature; Satire And Humor; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; Literary Criticism; European - German; Canetti, Elias; Influence; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Canetti, Elias,; 1905-; Blendung; Comic, The, in literature; German wit and humor; Theory, etc
Description: Now translated into more than twenty-two languages, Die Blendung, known in its English translation as either The Tower of Babel or Auto-da-Fe, has become something of a popular novel. Canetti and Nietzsche is the first full-length study of Canetti's novel to do justice to the profound implications of its peculiarly original sense of humor, one which typically finds its expression in facetiousness.

It understands facetiousness, through Nietzsche, as a performance art - an art that equates truth with the wisdom that life should be about the effort we put into creative acts. Examining both the theory and practice of humor, Murphy relates her own theoretical insights to the international debates concerning the influence of political correctness and the liberal Left inside and outside the universities.