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Journal articles on the topic "Egotism in literature"
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Rzepka, Charles J., and Stephen Bygrave. "Coleridge and the Self: Romantic Egotism." Studies in Romanticism 28, no. 4 (1989): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25600813.
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Schwartz, Peter J. "Eduard's Egotism: Historical Notes on Goethe'sElective Affinities." Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 76, no. 1 (2001): 41–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00168890109597432.
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Woodson, Thomas, and Joel Porte. "In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing." American Literature 64, no. 4 (1992): 817. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927648.
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Jr., Robert D. Richardson,. ": In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing. . Joel Porte." Nineteenth-Century Literature 47, no. 3 (1992): 368–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.1992.47.3.99p0462m.
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Stone, Wilfred. "The Play of Chance and Ego in Daniel Deronda." Nineteenth-Century Literature 53, no. 1 (1998): 25–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2902969.
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Gambling is a major issue in Daniel Deronda (1876), and it mediates a major conflict in George Eliot's system of belief. When the wayward Gwendolen gambles at roulette and marriage, she is made to suffer a heavy penance; yet when the author's darling Deronda risks his whole English inheritance for a visionary ideal, he is blessed. Gwendolen inhabits a deterministic world in which effect follows cause with relentless insistence, while Deronda, the flawless hero, inhabits one largely ruled by miracle and coincidence. These two gamblers receive very different treatment, and I probe this ambiguity under the rubrics of chance, play, and egotism. Eliot condemns chance because it substitutes luck for responsibility, yet she grants Deronda all the luck of a fixed game. He is her new savior, of a new faith at deep odds with any "religion of humanity." Play, gambling's other name, is Gwendolen's "doing as one likes" until, with Deronda teaching, she learns "duty." But on examination, this duty seems to include laundering the winnings of her marriage "gamble." Egotism, a bad word for Eliot, is Gwendolen's affliction in what we would now call narcissism. The gambler's character, experts agree, is self-centered, narcissistic, even solipsistic. Gwendolen is cured of her disease, but no cure is implied for the gambling age in which she lives, an age in which speculation and investment are increasingly hard to distinguish-and one in which Eliot, now rich, is deeply implicated. Gwendolen's deliverance promises no deliverance for that unregenerate society, and Deronda's New Jerusalem offers only a visionary, and essentially escapist, remedy. As George Eliot's last will and testament, this novel is a most troubled bequest.
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Chughtai, Muhammad Salman, Dr Hira Salah Ud Din Khan, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah, and Lenny Yusrini. "Dark Triad, Counterproductive Work Behaviors, Workplace Incivility, and the Role of Islamic Work Values: A Moderated Mediation Model." Business Ethics and Leadership 4, no. 4 (2020): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/bel.4(4).56-67.2020.
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The organization’s ethical climate increases productivity at the individual the organizational level; further, it reduces the harmful characteristics and negative intensity of individuals’ inflated self-esteem. Integration of the theory of threatened egotism and ethical climate theory, this study’s objective was to examine the mediating mechanism of workplace incivility between dark triad (Narcissism, Psychopathy and Machiavellianism) and counterproductive work behaviors with the sample from public sector (judiciary) institution. Additionally, in the present study, we also test the moderating effect of Islamic work values between the mediating relationship of workplace incivility and counterproductive work behaviors. Close-ended questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample size of 268 participants (permanent employees of the judiciary) of a public sector organization who voluntarily participate in the process of data collection for this study. To test the study’s proposed hypothesis, different statistical techniques, i.e., correlation, regression were applied to test the direct effects, and Hayes PROCESS-macro method was applied to test indirect effects (mediation), moderation, and moderated mediation. Findings of the study indicate that workplace incivility mediates the association of dark triad and counterproductive work behaviors. Furthermore, findings reveal that Islamic work values moderate the mediated relationship between workplace incivility and counterproductive work behaviors. We also tested the moderated mediation model, and findings indicate that Islamic work values weaken the positive intensity of dark triad and counterproductive work behaviors in the presence of workplace incivility. This study’s findings further declare that a higher level of Islamic work values weaken the intensity of negative personality on counterproductive work behaviors and decrease the uncivil behaviors of individuals at the workplace. Policymakers and higher management of public sector institutions especially focus on the psychological health and organizational climate to reduce the workplace’s harmful behaviors. Finally, this study theoretically enhances knowledge of personality psychology literature by explaining the negative consequences of negative personalities at the workplace. Overall, this study contributed to the theory of threatened egotism and ethical climate theory by integrating dark triad, workplace incivility, counterproductive work behaviors, and Islamic work values collaborations with exciting outcomes, specifically with the background of public sector institution of Asian developing country. Keywords: Dark Triad; Workplace Incivility; Islamic Work Values; Counterproductive Work Behaviors; Theory of Threatened Egotism; Ethical Climate Theory.
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Toth, Josh. "Do Androids Eat Electric Sheep?: Egotism, Empathy, and the Ethics of Eating in the Work of Philip K. Dick." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 24, no. 1 (2013): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2013.754238.
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Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "The Petrarchan Context of Spenser's Amoretti." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 100, no. 1 (1985): 38–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/462199.
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Spenser's Amoretti have never been properly appreciated, because they have been judged by the norms they have sought to criticize, the norms of Renaissance Petrarchism. A critique of Petrarchan love, the Amoretti turn away from that system's restless egotism toward the world of marriage, which Spenser presents as a sacred harbor of rest. This is not an absolutely original turn, since Petrarch himself, founder of the conventions of Petrarchan love, also sought to escape his own love situation. He does so, in the Canzoniere, by turning toward Heaven and by turning Laura into an agent of transcendence, like Dante's Beatrice. The turn the Amoretti make is parallel to the turn made by the Canzoniere, though in Spenser marriage replaces death as the means of obtaining sacred rest. Spenser's exaltation of marriage is indebted to Protestant teaching, though the Amoretti is where this new conception of marriage first enters love poetry.
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Mastroianni, Dominic. "Transcendentalism Without Escape." American Literary History 31, no. 3 (2019): 575–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz020.
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AbstractThis essay-review asks what transcendentalism can contribute to our sense of the present moment and our capacity to imagine more just and livable futures. In doing so, it suggests an alternative to the view that transcendentalism embraces escapism and isolating individualism. I focus on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, presuming that the present value of an idea of transcendentalism is to be discovered in their writings or nowhere. The two are centrally concerned with describing the conditions under which experience is acquired; their writing, then, evinces a wish to get closer to the world, not to escape it. What they do seek to transcend is not the world but our illusions about it, particularly those that feed egotism. The irony of calling Emerson in particular an escapist is that his writing makes escape so difficult to achieve. The process of reading Emerson—of finding a sentence suddenly captivating, just where it had been hopelessly dull—models and perhaps prompts a process of similar discovery about the mundane world. I conclude by linking transcendentalism to ideas of critical humility and naïveté suggested by Stanley Cavell, Toril Moi, Jane Bennett, and Theodor Adorno. Some form of naïveté, I speculate, might help us confront our inability to change in the midst of anthropogenic climate change and mass extinction.
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Gelderman, Cees J., Jelle Mampaey, Janjaap Semeijn, and Mark Verhappen. "Self-justification for opportunistic purchasing behavior in strategic supplier relationships." Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 34, no. 2 (2019): 451–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbim-03-2017-0077.
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PurposeThis study aims to get a deeper understanding of one of the antecedents of opportunistic behavior in strategic supplier relationships at the individual level of analysis. The authors specifically focus on self-justification, which could be seen as a mechanism that relaxes the moral scruples of purchasing professionals and, hence, facilitates actual opportunistic behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe critical incident technique was deployed to interview purchasing professionals in the Netherlands about their personal opportunistic behavior in strategic supplier relationships. This resulted in rich autobiographical accounts of 29 critical incidents of opportunistic behavior. The data were analyzed through the lens of the self-justification theory.FindingsThe study identified a set of self-justification strategies underlying opportunistic purchasing behavior in strategic supplier relationships. Opportunistic professionals tended to deploy six strategies: acknowledgement, denial, rationalization, attributional egotism, sense of entitlement and ego aggrandizement.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited to Dutch industrial purchasers and was exploratory by nature. Future research could extend the perspective to other sectors, cultures and professional roles.Practical implicationsThe study draws attention to radically new interventions at the individual level of analysis. To understand and minimize opportunistic behavior in strategic supplier relationships, organizations should acknowledge and address the important issue of self-justifications of purchasing professionals.Originality/valueIn contrast to the existing literature at the firm level of analysis, this study sheds new light on the antecedents of buyer opportunism from an alternative theoretical perspective at the individual level of analysis. The authors do not draw on the narrow perspective of personality psychology, but rather focus on the role of self-justification as an antecedent of buyer opportunism in strategic supplier relationships.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Egotism in literature"
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Schweers, Ellen H. "Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2868/.
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George Eliot's fiction is filled with mentoring relationships which generally consist of a wise male mentor and a foolish, egotistic female mentee. The mentoring narratives relate the conversion of the mentee from narcissism to selfless devotion to the community. By retaining the Christian value of self-abnegation and the Christian tendency to devalue nature, Eliot, nominally a secular humanist who abandoned Christianity, reveals herself still to be a covert Christian. In Chapter 1 I introduce the moral mentoring theme and provide background material. Chapter 2 consists of an examination of Felix Holt, which clearly displays Eliot's crucial dichotomy: the moral is superior to the natural. In Chapter 3 I present a Freudian analysis of Gwendolen Harleth, the mentee most fully developed. In Chapter 4 I examine two early mentees, who differ from later mentees primarily in that they are not egotists and can be treated with sympathy. Chapter 5 covers three gender-modified relationships. These relationships show contrasting views of nature: in the Dinah Morris-Hetty Sorrel narrative, like most of the others, Eliot privileges the transcendence of nature. The other two, Mary Garth-Fred Vincy and Dolly Winthrop-Silas Marner, are exceptions as Eliot portrays in them a Wordsworthian reconciliation with nature. In Chapter 6 I focus on Maggie Tulliver, a mentee with three failed mentors and two antimentors. Maggie chooses regression over growth as symbolized by her drowning death in her brother's arms. In Chapter 7 I examine Middlemarch, whose lack of a successful standard mentoring relationship contributes to its dark vision. Chapter 8 contains a reading of Romola which interprets Romola, the only mentee whose story takes place outside nineteenth-century England, as a feminist fantasy for Eliot. Chapter 9 concludes the discussion, focusing primarily on the question why the mentoring theme was so compelling for George Eliot. In the Appendix I examine the relationships in Eliot's life in which she herself was a mentee or a mentor.
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"Historical formation of romantic egotism: sensibility, radicalism, and the reception of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's early poetry." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888187.
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by Eric Kwan-wai Yu.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-264).
Preface --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 1 --- "A Portrait of the Romantic as a Solipsist The ""Romantic Revolt,"" Lyricism and Selfhood" --- p.9
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Romantic Alienation Reconsidered --- p.38
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Burdens of the Past The Poetic Vocation and Elitist Leanings --- p.83
Chapter Chapter 4 --- "Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Early Poetry Sensibility, Radical ism and Reception" --- p.121
Chapter Chapter 5 --- "Egotism Established The Reception of Wordsworth's Poems (1807) and the General Attack on the ""Lake School""" --- p.153
Chapter Chapter 6 --- "Egotism Transformed Hazlitt's Criticism, the Acceptance of Wordsworth, and Twentieth-Century Romantic Scholarship" --- p.195
Notes --- p.224
Works Cited --- p.250
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Siuda, Peter T. "Legendary Patriot or Corrupt Egotist? An Analysis of Tōyama Mitsuru Through an Interpretation of Dai Saigō Ikun." 2008. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/115.
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The objective of this thesis is to reveal that, despite the nigh-messianic image Tōyama Mitsuru (1855-1944) had among rightists and militarists for his staunch expansionist beliefs during the Taishō period (1912-1926), he was a rather inconsequential, boorish figure who had little impact on Japan’s political or economic spheres. Like Saigō Takamori (1828-1877), Tōyama also wished to see Japan colonize East Asia and gain military strength comparable to any Western nation; it was this type of thinking that Tōyama would promulgate in order to gain popularity and influence, and many of his contemporaries would thus view him as a disciple of Saigō’s teachings. However, it is my belief that Saigō and Tōyama differed greatly in terms of character and respectability, as Saigō gained influence through steadfast devotion to his superiors and teaching others of maintaining moral integrity, whereas Tōyama opted to use violence as a means of expressing his own opinions. The difference between the two men will become more apparent as I carefully analyze and interpret ten key points in Dai Saigō Ikun (“The Great Saigō’s Dying Instructions”), which best exemplify the opinions and thoughts of both Saigō Takamori and Tōyama Mitsuru, as Saigō’s Ikun and Tōyama’s subsequent criticisms were seen by many to perfectly represent the core ideologies of what both men believed in. Comparisons will be made from the intonations of both the points and their accompanying criticisms, and it will become evident that Tōyama’s personality differed considerably from Saigō’s in terms of directness and reservation (or lack thereof). I will examine the backgrounds of both men as well as that of Saiga Hiroyoshi (1891-1947), who contributed as publisher of the Dai Saigō Ikun and was himself a follower of Saigō’s beliefs. By examining his words and analyzing the conduct he displayed throughout his life, my thesis will disprove the illusion of Tōyama Mitsuru’s philanthropy and will show that, despite the abundance of books published that portray him as a selfless hero and how popular he became among right-wing advocates, he was an unsophisticated individual whose crude behavior served only to fuel the propaganda of Japanese militarism through justifying Japan’s colonization efforts into East Asia, which ultimately proved to be his sole goal in life.
Books on the topic "Egotism in literature"
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Bygrave, Stephen. Coleridge and the self: Romantic egotism. St. Martin's Press, 1986.
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Porte, Joel. In respect to egotism: Studies in American Romantic writing. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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